CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
Audrey NiffeneggerDo you ever miss him? Every day. Every minute. Every minute, she says. Yes, it's that way, isn't it?
Audrey NiffeneggerHenry 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.
Audrey NiffeneggerThe space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of paper; all around me are sketches for sculptures, small drawings that seem like moths fluttering against the windows, beating their wings to escape from this tiny space.. Every day the ideas come more reluctantly, as though they know I will starve them and stunt their growth.
Audrey Niffenegger