Falling in love Quotes by Nicole Krauss

8 Falling in love quotes by Nicole Krauss

All Falling in love quotes Nicole Krauss’s page

Nicole Krauss presents eight short, thoughtful lines that explore the delicate moment when affection first takes hold.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

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

Image

Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good…

Nicole Krauss

Image

But loneliness, true loneliness, is impossible to accustom oneself to, and while I was still young I thought of my situation as…

Nicole Krauss

Image

“Because it hardly ends with falling in love. Just the opposite. I don't need to tell you, Your Honor, I sense that…

Nicole Krauss

Image

“An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone’s…

Nicole Krauss

Image

When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close…

Nicole Krauss

Image

And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another…

Nicole Krauss

Image

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to…

Nicole Krauss

Image

Other authors on Falling in love

More by Nicole Krauss

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image

Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can…

Nicole Krauss

Image

“Doesn’t part of the awe that fills us when we confront the unknown come from understanding that, should it at last flood into us…

Nicole Krauss

Image

“I knew how to raise my own child, what did he think it was, a game of Scrabble or Monopoly, there are no rules,…

Nicole Krauss

Image