I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.

— Audrey Niffenegger

I'm living underwater. 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

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell-bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

— Audrey Niffenegger

‎I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.

— Audrey Niffenegger

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

— Audrey Niffenegger

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

— Audrey Niffenegger

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

— Audrey Niffenegger

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

— Audrey Niffenegger

It's terrific, Clare," Henry says, and we stare at each other, and I think, "Don't leave me.

— Audrey Niffenegger

I want my own bed, in my own apartment. 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.

— Audrey Niffenegger