I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

— Audrey Niffenegger

Knowing the future is different from being told what I like.

— Audrey Niffenegger

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?

— Audrey Niffenegger

Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too.

— Audrey Niffenegger

Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?

— Audrey Niffenegger

Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is gone to in some way other than just getting older.

— Audrey Niffenegger

One of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

— Audrey Niffenegger

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.

— Audrey Niffenegger

Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

— Audrey Niffenegger

Sister Carmelite says animals don't have souls""Of course animals have souls, where did she get that idea?"" She said the Pope says." "The Pope's an old meanie. Animals have much nicer souls than we do. They never tell lies or blow anybody up." "They eat each other." "Well, they have to eat each other; they can't go to Dairy Queen and get a large vanilla cone with sprinkles, can they? ""They could eat grass."" So could we, but we don't. We eat hamburgers.

— Audrey Niffenegger