“As for what, exactly, was said about the future, all I can say is that, speaking as indirectly as we were, transferred… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“During the Age of Glass, everyone believed some part of him or her to be extremely fragile. For some it was a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“There's a hurried intensity in the strokes--you can see where he scratched into the wet paint with the end of the brush.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.” — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“It wasn't always like this. There was a time when I imagined my life could happen in another way. It's true that… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another. — 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
. . . 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
I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245) — 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
“Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, on the edge of a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The kiss stayed there with no place to go, no sensory reserve that could absorb it and file it away as a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“He had slept next to her for thirty-six years, and the mattress felt different without her weight, however slight, and without the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“My child, My love and my regret, as you were when I first laid eyes on you, a tiny old man who… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a… — 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
