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. (Nicole Krauss)
There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead. View quote
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I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without. View quote
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I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is. View quote
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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. View quote
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... I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought, perhaps that is what it means to be a [parent] - to teach your child to live without you. View quote
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... after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood? View quote
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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 of your life. View quote
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... larger than life... I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? View quote
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Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs. View quote
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He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God. (Nicole Krauss)
There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger. View quote
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We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it's there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait. View quote
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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. View quote
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He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. View quote
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The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces. View quote
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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. View quote
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The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain [...] You could tell that he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who? View quote
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He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone. View quote
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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. View quote
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Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you. (Nicole Krauss)
Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together. View quote
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The truth is the thing I invented so I could live. View quote
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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. View quote
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Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you. View quote
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