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From Quotes by Nicole Krauss
- The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it…
- 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…
- For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was asked…
- I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what…
- Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time,…
- She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She…
- Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made…
- For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears…
- ...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?
- ("Let's stand under a tree," she said. "Why?" "Because it's nicer." "Maybe you should sit on a chair, and I'll stand above you, like they…
- I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.
- Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a…
- I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside…
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