Moments Quotes by Nicole Krauss

12 Moments quotes by Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss offers a tender, introspective lens on the passing seconds that shape us. Across 12 brief statements, she invites you to sense the quiet undercurrents that linger after a moment fades.

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We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying…

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It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying…

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I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.

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The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our…

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The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day…

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There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that…

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The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led…

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Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when…

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He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an…

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Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him…

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The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that…

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Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity…

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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…

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