When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.
Audrey NiffeneggerShe looks up at me, still rocking. โHenry . . . why did me decide to do this again?โ โSupposedly when itโs over they hand you a baby and let you keep it.โ โOh yeah.โ --Wednesday, September 5, 2001
Audrey NiffeneggerMartin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where itโsheโis 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