“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes matter worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of… — 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… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“But see, the incredible thing about people is that we forget," Ray continued. "Time passes and somehow the hope creeps back and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an… — 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
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The more I've learned in my life, the more acutely I've felt my hunger and blindness, and at the same time the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our… — 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
“These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone taking the time… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“But we didn’t invent the idea of a single God; we only wrote a story of our struggle to remain true to… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Just as there was a first instant when someone rubbed two sticks together to make a spark, there was a first time… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Because it hardly ends with falling in love. Just the opposite. I don't need to tell you, Your Honor, I sense that… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Why are we so addicted to factual knowledge? Why are we so uncomfortable with the unknown? Is it something about the anxiety… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends… — 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
