--- title: "15 Made Quotes By Nicole Krauss" description: "15 Made quotes by Nicole Krauss. Plus more from Nicole Krauss and more Made sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4d/nicole-krauss-920_glass_part-of-me-is-made-of-glass-and-also-i-l_604439.png" --- > [Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/part-of-me-is-made-of-glass-and-also-i-love-you/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4d/nicole-krauss-920_glass_part-of-me-is-made-of-glass-and-also-i-l_604439.png) > [All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/all-the-times-i-have-suddenly-realized-that-my-parents-are-dead-even/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea0/nicole-krauss-920_made_all-the-times-i-have-suddenly-realized-t_3042837.png) > [The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever. And yet.…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b83/nicole-krauss-920_asking_the-truth-is-that-she-told-me-she-couldn_2583242.jpg) > [Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/getting-a-book-published-made-me-feel-a-little-bit-sad-i-felt-driven/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/443/nicole-krauss-920_book_getting-a-book-published-made-me-feel-a_3156590.png) > [Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/then-he-almost-but-didn-t-say-the-two-sentence-he-d-been-meaning-to/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dac/nicole-krauss-920_glass_then-he-almost-but-didn-t-say-the-two-se_1732867.png) > [When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/when-at-last-i-came-upon-the-right-book-the-feeling-was-violent-it/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7da/nicole-krauss-920_book_when-at-last-i-came-upon-the-right-book_2993612.png) > [Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/sometimes-i-thought-about-nothing-and-sometimes-i-thought-about-my/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/263/nicole-krauss-920_easy_sometimes-i-thought-about-nothing-and-so_2721188.png) > [I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/i-ve-always-liked-the-feeling-of-traveling-light-there-is-something/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49d/nicole-krauss-920_chairs_i-ve-always-liked-the-feeling-of-traveli_1428792.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/i-finally-understood-that-no-matter-what-i-did-or-who-i-found-i-he/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd0/nicole-krauss-920_able_i-finally-understood-that-no-matter-what_1580257.jpg) > [I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/i-wished-to-punish-her-for-her-intolerable-stoicism-which-made-it/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cd/nicole-krauss-920_impossible_i-wished-to-punish-her-for-her-intolerab_1665858.png) > [Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-boy-who-lived-in-a-house-across-the/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25a/nicole-krauss-920_autumn_once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-boy-who-liv_222638.png) > [Our kiss was niticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad, but it was just a note of punctuation in our long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/our-kiss-was-niticlimactic-it-wasn-t-that-the-kiss-was-bad-but-it-was/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dae/nicole-krauss-920_agreement_our-kiss-was-niticlimactic-it-wasn-t-tha_3030850.jpg) > [When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/when-i-was-with-yoav-everything-in-me-that-had-been-sitting-stood-up/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a98/nicole-krauss-920_feel_when-i-was-with-yoav-everything-in-me-th_2202071.png) > [When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/when-you-are-young-you-think-it-s-going-to-be-solved-by-love-but-it-2/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/744/nicole-krauss-920_being-in-love_when-you-are-young-you-think-it-s-going_1683908.png) > [Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/maybe-the-first-time-you-saw-her-you-were-ten-she-was-standing-in-the/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b9/nicole-krauss-920_bicycle_maybe-the-first-time-you-saw-her-you-wer_392363.jpg) ## Other authors on Made ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/made/nicole-krauss/#itemlist", "name": "15 Made Quotes By Nicole Krauss", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nicole Krauss" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/part-of-me-is-made-of-glass-and-also-i-love-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4d/nicole-krauss-920_glass_part-of-me-is-made-of-glass-and-also-i-l_604439.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4d/nicole-krauss-920_glass_part-of-me-is-made-of-glass-and-also-i-l_604439.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4d/nicole-krauss-920_glass_part-of-me-is-made-of-glass-and-also-i-l_604439.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.” — Nicole Krauss", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nicole Krauss" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/all-the-times-i-have-suddenly-realized-that-my-parents-are-dead-even/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea0/nicole-krauss-920_made_all-the-times-i-have-suddenly-realized-t_3042837.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea0/nicole-krauss-920_made_all-the-times-i-have-suddenly-realized-t_3042837.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea0/nicole-krauss-920_made_all-the-times-i-have-suddenly-realized-t_3042837.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist…” — Nicole Krauss", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. 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