At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes matter worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people’s hands, nothing we say now that… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust the reader… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Obviously I've been reading Kafka for a long long time, since I was really young, and even before I ever read him I knew… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“She's kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she's turned life away. Sometimes… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
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