Audrey Niffenegger’s book ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ was published in 2003.
This book tells the tale of Clare and Henry, who met when Clare was six years old and Henry was thirty-six years old.
They eventually married when Clare was 22 and Henry was 30.
The novel has received great critical acclaim for its unique narrative style and in-depth consideration of issues such as love, loss, and the unrelenting passage of time.
Here is a collect of popular quotes from The Time Traveler’s Wife.
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The Time Traveler’s Wife Quotes by Audrey Niffenegger
“Everything seems simple until you think about it.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“I love. I have loved. I will love.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I’m tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that’s been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“It’s living up to being happy that’s the most difficult part.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
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Best The Time Traveler’s Wife Quotes
“Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“…all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger , The Time Traveler’s Wife.
“The compelling thing about making art – or making anything, I suppose – is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
Famous The Time Traveler’s Wife Quotes
“It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: “It’s just that I thought maybe you were married to me.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“Don’t you think 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?” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“I’m sorry. I didn’t know you were coming or I’d have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“The cure might be worse than the problem.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“Why is love intensified by absence?” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
Greastest The Time Traveler’s Wife Quotes
“I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“It’s hard being left behind. (…) It’s hard to be the one who stays.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn’t stand losing. But it’s too late for that.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“But you make me happy. It’s living up to being happy that’s the difficult part.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“Maybe I’m dreaming you. Maybe you’re dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other’s dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget all about each other.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
Quotes from The Time Traveler’s Wife
“What we need,’ Henry says, ‘is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let’s call her Tabula Rasa.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“Think 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 (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can’t own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can’t keep it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“When I was young I didn’t understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“That’s what alcoholics do. It’s in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
“I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife).
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