01c. 1963 ADChicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.Audrey Niffenegger / quote ↗
02c. 1963 ADI make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.Audrey Niffenegger / quote ↗
03c. 1963 ADI want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home.Audrey Niffenegger / quote ↗
04c. 1963 ADThink for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.Audrey Niffenegger / quote ↗
06c. 1963 ADSleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.Audrey Niffenegger / quote ↗
07c. 1963 ADI breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his facsimile.Audrey Niffenegger / quote ↗
08c. 1963 AD[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too.Audrey Niffenegger / quote ↗
09c. 1963 ADSister Carmelita 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 / quote ↗
10c. 1963 ADWhy do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arsonAudrey Niffenegger / quote ↗
11c. 1963 ADBut now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.Audrey Niffenegger / quote ↗
12c. 1963 ADI fell asleep. But later that night I woke up. There was moonlight coming through the window, and shadows of tree branches fell onto the bed, waving gently in the breeze.""And then you saw the ghost?"James laughed. "Dear chap, the branches WERE the ghost. There weren't any trees within a hundred yards of that house. They'd all been cut down years before. I saw the ghost of a tree.Audrey Niffenegger / quote ↗
13c. 1963 AD...and I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hand on me even while it seems to me that Henry is the rain and I am alone and wanting him- ClareAudrey Niffenegger / quote ↗
14c. 1963 ADThe space that I can call mine, that isn't full of Henry, is so small that my ideas have become small.Audrey Niffenegger / quote ↗
15c. 1963 ADLong 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 / quote ↗
16c. 1963 ADTime, let me vanish. Then what we separate by our very presence can come together.Audrey Niffenegger / quote ↗
