228 Quotes by Audrey Niffenegger

Clock time is our bank manager, tax collector, police inspector; this inner time is our wife.

A bad thing about dying is that I’ve started to feel as though I’m being erased. Another bad thing is that I won’t get to find out what happens next.

I love you, always. Time is nothing.

Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back.

Turning each page is like making a bed, an enormous expanse of paper slowly rises up and over.

Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn’t understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and they need cleaning. They need wearing, and I know just the girl to wear them.

Sometimes I’m happy when he’s gone, but I’m always happy when he returns. -Clare.

It would be a bad joke if I fell and broke myself now.