Nicole Krauss

“I thought: I didn't live forever.”

— Nicole Krauss

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.

— Nicole Krauss

“Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.”

— Nicole Krauss

“The truth is the thing I invented so that I could survive.”

— Nicole Krauss

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

— Nicole Krauss

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.

— Nicole Krauss

“there was stored substrata along”

— Nicole Krauss

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around…

— Nicole Krauss

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

— Nicole Krauss

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

— Nicole Krauss

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked…

— Nicole Krauss

If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

— Nicole Krauss

“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.”

— Nicole Krauss

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

— Nicole Krauss

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

— Nicole Krauss

He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How…

— Nicole Krauss

“Having begun to feel, people’s desire to feel grew. They wanted to feel more, feel deeper, despite how it sometimes hurt. People…

— Nicole Krauss

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not…

— Nicole Krauss

“I know sometimes things are hard with Mum." "She misses Dad," I said, which was like pointing out that a sky-scraper is…

— Nicole Krauss

“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the…

— Nicole Krauss

And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of…

— Nicole Krauss

Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while, you actually feel like you've become one…

— Nicole Krauss

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded…

— Nicole Krauss

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an…

— Nicole Krauss

“. . . to survive the dark and often terrifying passage of my life I came to believe certain thing about myself…

— Nicole Krauss

There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it.…

— Nicole Krauss

Forests, which I think do contain a lot mystery and traditionally are the setting for lawlessness and magic and what is outside…

— Nicole Krauss

“After all, the world population of artists has exploded, almost no one is not an artist now; in turning our attention inward,…

— Nicole Krauss

I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over…

— Nicole Krauss

I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I…

— Nicole Krauss

Obviously I've been reading Kafka for a long long time, since I was really young, and even before I ever read him…

— Nicole Krauss

“The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people’s hands, nothing we say…

— Nicole Krauss

“But see, the incredible thing about people is that we forget," Ray continued. "Time passes and somehow the hope creeps back and…

— Nicole Krauss

“One day she marched around the side of the house and confronted me. "I've seen you out there every day for the…

— Nicole Krauss

“From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the…

— Nicole Krauss

“Franz Kafka is Dead He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come…

— Nicole Krauss

“If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends…

— Nicole Krauss

“Once my father told me: When a Jew prays, he is asking God a question that has no end. Darkness fell. Rain…

— Nicole Krauss

“...I continued to sit there hour after hour watching the unrelenting rain slosh against the glass, thinking of our life together, Lotte's…

— Nicole Krauss

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

— Nicole Krauss