Nicole Krauss Quotes: 10

• 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.

  The History of Love

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

  The History of Love

• 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.

  The History of Love

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

  The History of Love

• 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.

  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.

  Great House

• At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.

  The History of Love

• When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit

  The History of Love