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36732d2
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Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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8fe7b1f
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Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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d27dc53
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I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.
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love
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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d747d64
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It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
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time
love
waiting
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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68e89e4
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It's dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.
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time
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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d01ca3e
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Why is love intensified by absence?
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yearning
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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ce2430d
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Time is priceless, but it's Free. You can't own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can't keep it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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020b8c0
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We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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c9f584c
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Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
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lover
sleep
opiate
oblivion
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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42efbf4
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Maybe I'm dreaming you. Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget all about each other.
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the-time-traveler-s-wife
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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b5a3f7e
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I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?
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melancholy
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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225b704
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I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
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trust
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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235f559
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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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Audrey Niffenegger |
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ac352d6
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Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?
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lost-love
moment
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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f069708
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I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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bdc1dd4
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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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mothers
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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0c92f10
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I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air."
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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e30e781
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I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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05657af
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Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
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inspirational
goals
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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2290e7b
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But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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33b23fc
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I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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f2f90f6
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Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.
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relationships
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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2411a2f
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Do you ever miss him? Every day. Every minute. Every minute, she says. Yes, it's that way, isn't it?
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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4ea9002
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I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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0e90226
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I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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2c704bf
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I don't know about you, but I'm kind of fed up with realism. After all, there's enough reality already; why make more of it? Why not leave realism for the memoirs of drug addicts, the histories of salt, the biographies of porn stars? Why must we continue to read about the travails of divorced people or mildly depressed Canadians when we could be contemplating the shopping habits of zombies, or the difficulties that ensue when living and dea..
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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be1f780
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I love. I have loved. I will love.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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bf458e4
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The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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f385b58
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Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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8490825
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that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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9fd15b9
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There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.
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travel
life
inspirational
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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08af355
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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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e862212
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I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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17be64b
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Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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01cbde9
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When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain befor you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspaper in question is a week old; that I am the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that he..
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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1fb23fa
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I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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09ba898
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We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and I climb on and Henry takes the one next to me facing the opposite direction. And we swing higher and higher passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast that it seems we are going to collide. And we laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost or dead or far aw..
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the-time-traveler-s-wife
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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4e814eb
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He is coming, and I am here.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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ac2ec0f
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It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: "It's just that I thought maybe you were married to me."
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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fd1c959
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He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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2bafaf3
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I love you, always. Time is nothing.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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4db2462
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But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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2373fdb
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You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.
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strangeness
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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4c60cf5
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The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
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Audrey Niffenegger |