Nicole Krauss

At night the sky is pure astronomy.

— Nicole Krauss

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

— Nicole Krauss

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

— Nicole Krauss

He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone.

— Nicole Krauss

...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

— Nicole Krauss

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

— Nicole Krauss

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

— Nicole Krauss

...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!

— Nicole Krauss

“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.”

— Nicole Krauss

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

— Nicole Krauss

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked…

— Nicole Krauss

If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

— Nicole Krauss

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

— Nicole Krauss

“A wave of nausea came over me. And yet. Sometimes you need a stroke of genius and, lo and behold, genius comes…

— Nicole Krauss

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

— Nicole Krauss

You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I…

— Nicole Krauss

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the…

— Nicole Krauss

“I was considered attractive in those days, some people even called me beautiful, though my skin was never good and it was…

— Nicole Krauss

I think a lot of the questions - questioning reality and the self and the desire to change, to me are always…

— Nicole Krauss

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed…

— Nicole Krauss

I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But…

— Nicole Krauss

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a…

— Nicole Krauss

We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it’s there, in that fissure, that we pitch…

— Nicole Krauss

...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose…

— Nicole Krauss

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

— Nicole Krauss

At the most simplistic level physicists tell us that what we see as reality is not actually accurate. A rock looks solid…

— Nicole Krauss

Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come…

— Nicole Krauss

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

“Somewhere in the far north of Canada there wuld be snow, falling soundlessly overy the Beaufort Sea, falling over the Artic without…

— Nicole Krauss

The book Forest Dark wants to provoke questions about what is reality and why are we so given to believe that reality…

— Nicole Krauss

“Daniel was twenty-three, a year younger than I was, and though he hadn’t yet published a book of poems he seemed to…

— Nicole Krauss

“I often wonder who will be the last person to see me alive. If I had to bet, it would be on…

— Nicole Krauss

“But see, the incredible thing about people is that we forget," Ray continued. "Time passes and somehow the hope creeps back and…

— Nicole Krauss

“The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people’s hands, nothing we say…

— Nicole Krauss

“HOW ANGELS SLEEP. Unsoundly. They toss and turn, trying to understand the mystery of the living. They know so little about what…

— Nicole Krauss

“If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends…

— Nicole Krauss

“Once my father told me: When a Jew prays, he is asking God a question that has no end. Darkness fell. Rain…

— Nicole Krauss

“Franz Kafka is Dead He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come…

— Nicole Krauss

“One day she marched around the side of the house and confronted me. "I've seen you out there every day for the…

— Nicole Krauss

“From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the…

— Nicole Krauss