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Said Quotes by 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 every single day…
- Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the room.…
- That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when someone…
- Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against my ribs. He…
- Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do,…
- I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other…
- ("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…
- Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there…
- Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and…
- He held my hand and told me a story about when he was six and threw a rock at a kid's head who was bullying…
- Don’t you see?” I said. “He could change every detail, but he couldn’t change her.” “But why?” His obtuseness frustrated me. “Because he was in…
- The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever. And yet. I made myself…
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