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Nicole Krauss Quotes: "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone."

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.




Nicole Krauss Quotes: "What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you."

What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them."

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.




Nicole Krauss Quotes: "To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like."

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox."

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?"

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




Nicole Krauss Quotes: "I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without."

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past."

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition."

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?"

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



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you."

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.




Nicole Krauss Quotes: "...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom."

...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations."

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life."

I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation."

What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life."

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.



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

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



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "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."

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

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



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand."

An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "lonely people are always up in the middle of the night."

lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it."

When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "At night the sky is pure astronomy."

At night the sky is pure astronomy.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness"

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "The truth is the thing I invented so I could live."

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely."

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you."

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "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, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence."

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, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen."

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all."

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



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark."

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets."

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together."

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist"

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions."

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it."

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet."

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family."

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry."

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy."

The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.



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

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



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?"

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you."

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it."

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago."

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer."

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well."

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.



Nicole Krauss Quotes: "I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read."

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.