one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
Audrey NiffeneggerCLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
Audrey NiffeneggerHe would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.
Audrey NiffeneggerI never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
Audrey NiffeneggerThe 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. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art.
Audrey Niffenegger