Anna

“I fell asleep. But later that night I woke up. There was moonlight coming through the window, and shadows of tree branches fell onto the bed, waving gently in the breeze."
"And then you saw the ghost?"
James laughed. "Dear chap, the branches WERE the ghost. There weren't any trees within a hundred yards of that house. They'd all been cut down years before. I saw the ghost of a tree.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

“Being in love is…anxious,” he said. “Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to be known. That is…you’re naked, moaning in the dark, no dignity at all…I wanted her to see me and to love me even though she knew everything I am, and I knew her”
― Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

“We're squirrels in human form, she whispered. And so are you.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

“Sometimes a thing is---too much---and it has to be isolated put away.”
― audrey niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry