Audrey Niffenegger



Audrey Niffenegger (born June 13, 1963, in South Haven, Michigan) is an American writer, artist and academic.

The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003)

 * All page numbers from the trade paperback edition published by Harcourt


 * My family isn’t posh; they’re musicians.
 * p. 13


 * Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will.
 * p. 154


 * “But don’t you think,” I persist, “that it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
 * p. 239


 * That’s what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws.
 * p. 249


 * Clare takes a mouthful, swallows it in a businesslike fashion, and says, “Well, that’s not so bad.” “That’s a twenty-something-dollar bottle of wine.” “Oh. Well, that was marvelous.”
 * p. 419


 * But as usual there’s no answer to this. As usual, that’s just how it is.
 * p. 527