Persons Quotes by Nicole Krauss

10 Persons quotes by Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss writes with a delicate balance of melancholy and hope, and her spoken reflections mirror that tone. This brief selection captures her nuanced view of human connection.

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Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the…

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Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while, you actually feel like you've become one…

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One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

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I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her…

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That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and…

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Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth…

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Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while…

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That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent…

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When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close…

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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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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.

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“The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a…

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“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…

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I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust the reader…

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Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the…

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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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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…

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“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…

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“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…

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“I knew how to raise my own child, what did he think it was, a game of Scrabble or Monopoly, there are no rules,…

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