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Audrey Niffenegger Quotes about Children

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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.

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
Mom, Mother, Children
Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India.

Audrey Niffenegger
Children, Dancing, Balance

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children.

Audrey Niffenegger
Children, Names, Worry
Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you haven't studied for and you aren't wearing any clothes. And you've left your wallet at home. When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.

Audrey Niffenegger
Running, Dream, Children
Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins.

Audrey Niffenegger
Children, Gone, Goblin
Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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