“I knew how to raise my own child, what did he think it was, a game of Scrabble or Monopoly, there are… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“15. WHENEVER I WENT OUT TO PLAY, MY MOTHER WANTED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE I WAS GOING TO BE When I'd come… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Once upon a time you were a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A… — 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
She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years… — 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
“Once my father told me: When a Jew prays, he is asking God a question that has no end. Darkness fell. Rain… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I took a drink, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand, repeating the gesture that was made a hundred times… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
. . . I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“19. THE WALL OF DICTIONARIES BETWEEN MY MOTHER AND THE WORLD GETS TALLER EVERY YEAR Sometimes pages of the dictionaries come loose… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“...and at the table next to her was a little boy in a soccer uniform sitting with his mother who told him,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the… — 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
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