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. Audrey Niffenegger More Quotes by Audrey Niffenegger More Quotes From Audrey Niffenegger 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? Audrey Niffenegger inspire life thinking There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love. Audrey Niffenegger writing pregnancy love 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? Audrey Niffenegger tired sleep winter Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing. Audrey Niffenegger realizing knowing sometimes Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. Audrey Niffenegger opiates lovers sleep Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element. Audrey Niffenegger natural-elements world moving 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. Audrey Niffenegger lost-ones world travel It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays. Audrey Niffenegger left-behind time love Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you. Audrey Niffenegger labyrinth real love-you we both smile and we are conspirators. Audrey Niffenegger conspirators I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me. Audrey Niffenegger heartbreak leaving love He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it. Audrey Niffenegger happened alive I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always. Audrey Niffenegger love romantic relationship Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. Audrey Niffenegger chaos facts I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark. Audrey Niffenegger bent hell dark He is coming, and I am here. Audrey Niffenegger I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books. Audrey Niffenegger morning beautiful book …she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy Audrey Niffenegger brilliant sun way What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Audrey Niffenegger entering attention men The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it. Audrey Niffenegger sulking bed pain
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