Nicole Krauss quotes - page 2

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)
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. View quote
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How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself? View quote
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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. View quote
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The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it-just to name it-must have been like trying to catch something invisible. View quote
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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 words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness. View quote
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I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another. View quote
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No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal. View quote
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Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute. View quote
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Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement. View quote
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All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen. (Nicole Krauss)
It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions. View quote
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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. View quote
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...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none. View quote
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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. View quote
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When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different. View quote
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And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it. View quote
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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. View quote
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After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness. View quote
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Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you. View quote
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The words of our childhood became strangers to us- we couldn't use them in the same way and so we chose not to use them at all. Life demanded a new language. (Nicole Krauss)
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. View quote
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I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. View quote
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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. View quote
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The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan. View quote
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