“I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp...”
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Audrey Niffenegger (born June 13, 1963) is an American writer, artist, and academic. Her debut novel, *The Time Traveler's Wife,* published in 2003, was a bestseller.
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“I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp...”
“We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.”
“I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room”
“Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.”
“To world enough and time.”
“When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their readers, the...”
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“Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books re...”
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