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Nicole Krauss Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“Because, nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.”
— Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
Tagged: Happiness, Sadness, Love, Special Someone
“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, The History of Love
Tagged: Passion, Escapism, interests, Endeavors, activities
“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, The History of Love
Tagged: World, Readiness, Life, Missing Out
“Every time she tries to leave, the boy stops her, begging like a fool. And so she always returns, no matter how often she leaves or how far she goes, appearing soundlessly behind him and covering his eyes with her hands, spoiling for him anyone who could ever come after her.”
— Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
Tagged: Love, Coming Back
“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it’s something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.”
— Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
Tagged: Writing, writer, write, Misunderstood, Silence
“I’ve reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.”
— Nicole Krauss, Great House: A Novel
Tagged: Failure, Sufferings, Learning from mistakes, learning from experience, Experience, Living, Life
“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, The History of Love
Tagged: Love, True Love, Laughter, Life
“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, The History of Love
Tagged: Forever With You
“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, The History of Love
Tagged: Literary Quotes, Literature
“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, The History of Love
Tagged: Disappointment, Youth, Dating
“You fall in love, it's intoxicating, an for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls, and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again. Only it doesn't last and soon you realize you can only get so close and you end up brutally disappointed, more alone than ever, because the illusion-the hope you'd held on to all those years-has been shattered.”
— Nicole Krauss, Man Walks Into a Room
Tagged: Disappointment, Love, Hope
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