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> [Don’t you see?” I said. “He could change every detail, but he couldn’t change her.” “But why?” His obtuseness frustrated me. “Because he was in love with her!” I said. “Because, to him, she was the only thing that was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/don-t-you-see-i-said-he-could-change-every-detail-but-he-couldn-t/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

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> [The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever. And yet. I made myself forget. I don't know why. I keep asking myself. But I did.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/the-truth-is-that-she-told-me-she-couldn-t-love-me-when-she-said/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

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## Other authors on Love Said

## 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/narrative-cannot-sustain-formlessness-any-more-than-light-can-sustain/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

> [I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/i-think-of-novels-as-houses-you-live-in-them-over-the-course-of-a/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

> [When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/when-we-went-into-the-ocean-i-watched-his-body-as-he-dove-into-the/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

> [“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes matter worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/there-are-times-when-the-kindness-of-strangers-only-makes-matter/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 a fence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/she-was-gone-and-all-that-was-left-was-the-space-where-you-d-grown/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

> [“The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/the-air-felt-different-in-my-lungs-the-world-no-longer-looked-the/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 now that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/the-first-language-humans-had-was-gestures-there-was-nothing/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

> [I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust the reader…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/i-feel-really-strongly-about-not-wanting-to-overly-guide-the-reader/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

> [Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/mom-i-said-she-turned-can-i-talk-to-you-about-something-of-course/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/in-one-s-youth-one-has-tremendous-access-to-one-s-feelings-and-as-one/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 I knew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/obviously-i-ve-been-reading-kafka-for-a-long-long-time-since-i-was/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/she-s-kept-her-love-for-him-as-alive-as-the-summer-they-first-met-in/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

> [Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/sometimes-no-length-of-string-is-long-enough-to-say-the-thing-that/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/doesn-t-part-of-the-awe-that-fills-us-when-we-confront-the-unknown/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

> [“I knew how to raise my own child, what did he think it was, a game of Scrabble or Monopoly, there are no rules,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/i-knew-how-to-raise-my-own-child-what-did-he-think-it-was-a-game-of/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

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