228 Quotes by Audrey Niffenegger

I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved.

The heart asks pleasure first; and then excuse from pain.

He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present. He says in the past we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there.

I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. – Henry deTamble.

It wasn’t quite raining, but it wasn’t exactly not raining either. She heard the driver squelching along the path behind her.

I love. I have loved. I will love.

I hear a muffled sniffling noise and glancing at Claire I am astonished to see that tears are streaming across her face toward her ears. I sit up and lean over her... I smooth her hair, and pull her into a sitting position, wrap my arms around her.

I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.

I loved you, I made you, and I made this for you – long after I am gone, and Henry is gone, and even Alba is gone. It will say, we made you, and here you are, here and now.