Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedr...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also ...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I h...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm b...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play ...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my ...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I raise my head and see a red illuminated EXIT sign and as my eyes adjust I see tigers, cavemen with...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a ...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. A...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I am so accustomed to living on a metaphysical trapeze that I forget that other people tend to enjoy...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead?
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness, dead people need us to rememer them, even if it eats...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he ...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Maybe I'm dreaming you. Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and eve...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all;...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I love. I have loved. I will love.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning th...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can't own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can'...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Why is love intensified by absence?
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will ...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER It's easy to be omniscient when you've done it all before.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. T...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER The apartment is a laboratory in which we conduct experiments, perform research on each other. We di...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will ...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I am afraid of the future; it seems to be a big box waiting for me.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she�...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexi...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping agains...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sle...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vapor...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into her...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Do you ever miss him?
Every day. Every minute.
Every minute, she says.
Yes, it's tha...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunli...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believe...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not ...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were m...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and th...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Our love has been the thread through the
labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the onl...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling ...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER To world enough and time.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Roy is my favorite security guy. He's a huge African-American gentleman who always has a beautiful s...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anythi...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think,...
AUDREY HEPBURN I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures...
AUDREY HEPBURN The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her sou...
AUDREY HEPBURN If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
AUDREY HEPBURN I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab th...
AUDREY HEPBURN There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.
AUDREY HEPBURN I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.
AUDREY HEPBURN Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
AUDREY HEPBURN I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
AUDREY HEPBURN Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you're go...
AUDREY HEPBURN The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I wa...
AUDREY HEPBURN I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.
AUDREY HEPBURN I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, becau...
AUDREY HEPBURN I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a ve...
AUDREY HEPBURN My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, t...
AUDREY HEPBURN It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the ...
AUDREY HEPBURN There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
AUDREY HEPBURN I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do...
AUDREY HEPBURN When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think l...
AUDREY HEPBURN I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
AUDREY HEPBURN People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never...
AUDREY HEPBURN You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about ...
AUDREY HEPBURN The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the p...
AUDREY HEPBURN As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other fo...
AUDREY HEPBURN The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
AUDREY HEPBURN I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are th...
AUDREY HEPBURN The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
AUDREY HEPBURN It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whol...
AUDREY HEPBURN I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday mornin...
AUDREY HEPBURN I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
AUDREY HEPBURN Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
AUDREY HEPBURN If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
AUDREY HEPBURN The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. I...
AUDREY HEPBURN I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have...
AUDREY HEPBURN When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing ...
AUDREY MCLAUGHLIN Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there...
AUDREY HEPBURN I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in T...
AUDREY TAUTOU Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it become...
AUDREY HEPBURN Paris is always a good idea.
AUDREY HEPBURN If I get married, I want to be very married.
AUDREY HEPBURN I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my...
AUDREY HEPBURN If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthw...
AUDREY HEPBURN Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
AUDREY HEPBURN The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she co...
AUDREY HEPBURN I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything sp...
AUDREY HEPBURN The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
AUDREY HEPBURN Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
AUDREY HEPBURN Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw,...
AUDREY HEPBURN I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medic...
AUDREY HEPBURN Water is life, and clean water means health.
AUDREY HEPBURN After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you&...
AUDREY TAUTOU Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
AUDREY HEPBURN My efforts are nothing compared to what's being put in. It's just going to be a wonderful night for ...
AUDREY GREEN We haven't had to ask anybody. My phone's been ringing off the hook.
AUDREY GREEN All the talk about corporate downsizing has made people in large corporate bureaucracies tremble, be...
AUDREY FREEDMAN All the talk about corporate downsizing has made people in large corporate bureaucracies tremble, be...
AUDREY FREEDMAN It's really taken an awfully long time to convince all the authorities that there is no inflationary...
AUDREY FREEDMAN It's really taken an awfully long time to convince all the authorities that there is no inflationary...
AUDREY FREEDMAN Now we have another confirmation that there is no (inflationary) pressure in this economy. There's s...
AUDREY FREEDMAN The biggest issue facing the new secretary of labor should be the complete reform of the state emplo...
AUDREY FREEDMAN We've enjoyed very pleasant cooperation with the Democratic Party and other pro-democrats in the leg...
AUDREY EU If the government flatly and consistently refuses to provide figures, it means only one thing - it's...
AUDREY EU He is highly efficient. He took the challenge of hosting the WTO meeting and the results had been re...
AUDREY EU It's a resource question. We're trying to pass legislation, and we need to know what the figures are...
AUDREY EU On the one hand, you don't answer questions because you say you don't want to interfere with the cor...
AUDREY EU I want the best apparel, I want the best field playing surface, I want the best coaches. I just want...
AUDREY WALLACE We're looking to raise money through them to get us two new synthetic turf playing surfaces. So when...
AUDREY WALLACE A lot of the girls don't really want to talk about it ... but the shooting was kind of the impetus b...
AUDREY WALLACE I have three girls who have been playing together for four years. The rest have played for one or tw...
AUDREY WALLACE We came into big-time lacrosse-playing territory. I was not setting us up for failure. I wanted a fe...
AUDREY WALLACE Every single thing happens for a reason. I truly believe that.
AUDREY WALLACE I met him in October, and he said he would lend his name to our lacrosse classic. This significant m...
AUDREY WALLACE It certainly is bittersweet for me. I am a Spring-Ford graduate and you always want to see your alma...
AUDREY WALLACE The youth program has kids coming in from all other areas of San Diego. So the girls that are coming...
AUDREY WALLACE It's a much different game here. It's a faster-paced game, the checking is rougher, the stick skills...
AUDREY WALLACE We're trying to work out the situation.
AUDREY THIBODEAUX It's real sensitive with 13 people in one room. We don't want anything to disturb that.
AUDREY THIBODEAUX We're looking into the possibility that an additional three to four detainees may have joined in wit...
AUDREY THIBODEAUX It does appear that these detainees are not allowing these inmates to leave.
AUDREY THIBODEAUX I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there...
AUDREY TAUTOU After Amelie was such a huge success that, strangely, I didn't want to do a movie which could be a h...
AUDREY TAUTOU When I wanted to do this job it was for making movies not for the glitter. Of course with the fame I...
AUDREY TAUTOU I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.
AUDREY TAUTOU I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so ...
AUDREY TAUTOU After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're g...
AUDREY TAUTOU I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Bl...
AUDREY TAUTOU People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with...
AUDREY TAUTOU In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It...
AUDREY TAUTOU There are people we wonder about but don't make attempts to contact. Perhaps we're afraid of empty c...
AUDREY STEIN Deep down, beneath all our insecurities, beneath all our hopes for and beliefs in equality, each of ...
AUDREY STEIN the best relationships--friendship and otherwise--tend to be those where you *can* say anything to t...
AUDREY STEIN Was he attractive? She was too attracted to tell.
AUDREY STEIN They're based on a lot of assumptions, but they're also based on some reality on the ground.
AUDREY SINGER I think people will fight about the numbers. But the message here is clear: that people want to retu...
AUDREY SINGER Looking toward the future, we see a different face of the U.S. population. But I don't think that's ...
AUDREY SINGER There's no doubt that we are at a high in immigration to the United States.
AUDREY SINGER Enforcement levels are up across the border, so it's not as easy to get back and forth.
AUDREY SINGER Paying for it now is going to pay off later.
AUDREY SINGER Take the poultry and meat packing industries. These used to be primarily native-born just 10, 12 yea...
AUDREY SINGER I do want to take this public moment to thank my staff for the work they have put in on this propert...
AUDREY RUST When the bubble burst it was clear some of that really extra money wasn't there anymore and so that ...
AUDREY RUST It's just fabulous. This last quarter has been truly remarkable, it's been inspirational. It just sh...
AUDREY RUST It makes you realize how important it is to do this well.
AUDREY RUST Children always like to have new things.
AUDREY ROSENSTEIN Children in state custody can come in with an adult and get whatever they need. They can get clothin...
AUDREY ROSENSTEIN Everyone has a niche in life. This is what I was meant to do.
AUDREY ROSENSTEIN I told my husband that I didn't think I could do this. Then Craig said: 'If everybody felt that way,...
AUDREY ROSENSTEIN Jack really matured over the years. He got to be a much bigger person, much more willing to see peop...
AUDREY MOORE He never gave up. He wanted to get back and run the board.
AUDREY MOORE He got a little mad at me and didn't speak to me for a while.
AUDREY MOORE Jack was very proud of his family.
AUDREY MOORE He had to get known on other issues because he was ambitious and he wanted to run for congress.
AUDREY MOORE He can take a lot of credit for bringing in a lot of good businesses.
AUDREY MOORE What was brick was beautiful, as far as Jack was concerned, and the more we had, the better he liked...
AUDREY MOORE He was a colorful guy and very sincere guy. I'm saddened because he's gone.
AUDREY MOORE Jack didn't used to be able to get a second for his motions, and I didn't either.
AUDREY MOORE Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to influence state law. Little old me spoke and I was heard....
AUDREY MILLER Wow. I?m thrilled. It?s such a compliment, 100 percent. It?s great to see that they saw the value in...
AUDREY MILLER As it stands in Maine now, a property owner can do whatever they want - the common enemy rule - and ...
AUDREY MILLER I am more than happy to have received a unanimous vote from the Judiciary Committee in Augusta.
AUDREY MILLER If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wante...
AUDREY MEADOWS I asked Frank what he remembered most about working with Jackie. He said, 'Apart from the fact that ...
AUDREY MEADOWS Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie,he was worth his weight in g...
AUDREY MEADOWS Fans always ask, 'What did the bedroom look like?' All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and...
AUDREY MEADOWS Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.
AUDREY MEADOWS Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their f...
AUDREY MEADOWS Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.
AUDREY MEADOWS Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.'
AUDREY MEADOWS But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.
AUDREY MEADOWS A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right.
AUDREY MEADOWS He's known as a help to people in need.
AUDREY LEWIS Like any other marketing campaign, you want to build up your profile.
AUDREY LEWIS