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Away Quotes by Nicole Krauss
- The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been…
- That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly…
- At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why…
- Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt…
- One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and…
- At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when…
- And so he did the hardest thing he’d ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius