Audrey Niffenegger

thumb|Audrey Niffenegger in 2009 Audrey Niffenegger (born June 13, 1963, in South Haven, Michigan) is an American writer, artist and academic. Quotes 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 External links Category:Living people Category:Poets from the United States Category:Novelists from the United States Category:People from Michigan