Nicole Krauss citations (65 citations, Page 2)

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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.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“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.”

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Nicole Krauss livre Great House

Source: Great House

“Perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so, no one was a greater father than I.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 164

“I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Nicole Krauss livre Great House

Source: Great House

“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.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“… after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?”

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Nicole Krauss livre Great House

Source: Great House

“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.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

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

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“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 love with her!” I said. “Because, to him, she was the only thing that was real.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“… we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.”

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Nicole Krauss livre Great House

Source: Great House

“How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself?”

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Nicole Krauss livre Man Walks Into a Room

Source: Man Walks Into a Room

“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.”

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Nicole Krauss livre Great House

Source: Great House

“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.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“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.”

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Nicole Krauss livre Great House

Source: Great House

“I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“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.”

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Nicole Krauss livre Great House

Source: Great House

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

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“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 the first was THE WAY HE HOLDS THINGS. I did not understand how you can miss the way somebody holds things.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“… The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!”

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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.”

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Nicole Krauss livre Man Walks Into a Room

Source: Man Walks Into a Room

“Even after the only person whose opinion I cared about left on a boat for America, I continued to fill pages with her name.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 8

“Franz Kafka is dead.He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me." The people whispered and nodded among themselves. […] They turned and started for home under the canopy of leaves. Children were carried on their fathers' shoulders, sleepy from having been taken to see who wrote his books on pieces of bark he tore off the tree from which he refused to come down. In his delicate, beautiful, illegible handwriting. And they admired those books, and they admired his will and stamina. After all: who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of his loneliness? One by one families broke off with a good night and a squeeze of the hands, suddenly grateful for the company of neighbors. Doors closed to warm houses. Candles were lit in windows. Far off, in his perch in the trees, Kafka listened to it all: the rustle of the clothes being dropped to the floor, or lips fluttering along naked shoulders, beds creaking along the weight of tenderness. That night a freezing wind blew in. When the children woke up, they went to the window and found the world encased in ice.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 187

“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.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love (2005), P.6

“Sometimes I think: I am older than this tree, older than this bench, older than the rain. And yet. I'm not older than the rain. It's been falling for years and after I go it will keep on falling.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 349

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