Audrey Niffenegger Quotes

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Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

Audrey Niffenegger
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

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My reflection in the mirror shows me pink and puffy. I thought pregnant women were to supposed to glow. I am not glowing.

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In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.

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

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I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.

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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.

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It's dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

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That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.

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Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I'm home. I'm home.

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