one of the best and the most ...

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
 Audrey Niffenegger

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I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room
 Audrey Niffenegger
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 memories standing out.
 Audrey Niffenegger
There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.
 Audrey Niffenegger
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 space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of paper; all around me are sketches for sculptures, small drawings that seem like moths fluttering against the windows, beating their wings to escape from this tiny space.. Every day the ideas come more reluctantly, as though they know I will starve them and stunt their growth.
 Audrey Niffenegger