Quotes from Audrey Niffenegger

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

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

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.

I love. I have loved. I will love.

that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws

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.

What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

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.

When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?

I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)

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

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

It's hard being left behind. It's hard to be the one who stays.

I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.