“Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The idea that we've outgrown ends up limiting us and we have to make a choice about what we're going to do… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none. — 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… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the questions - questioning reality and the self and the desire to change, to me are always… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“... I had the elated, otherworldly feeling I sometimes get entering the sphere of another's life, when for a moment changing my… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The more I've learned in my life, the more acutely I've felt my hunger and blindness, and at the same time the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“. . . to survive the dark and often terrifying passage of my life I came to believe certain thing about myself… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“My mother was the force around which our world turned. Unlike our father, who spent his life in the clouds, my mother… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The woman who later became his wife was sleeping in his bed, her face buried in the pillows and her feet crossed… — 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… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“HOW ANGELS SLEEP. Unsoundly. They toss and turn, trying to understand the mystery of the living. They know so little about what… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“It wasn't always like this. There was a time when I imagined my life could happen in another way. It's true that… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
“The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
And so he did the hardest thing he’d ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Put even a fool in front of the window and you'll get a Spinoza; in the end life makes window watchers of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I simply came to believe that one, the factual circumstances of my life were almost accidental and didn't grow out of my… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“These valuable thing produced in us a feeling of intimidation. We knew that no matter how far we got in life, we… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I thought that I would live my life as freely as the writers and artists I took as… — 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
