Nicole Krauss Short Quotes

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All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.

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After all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

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I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

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The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.

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In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

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It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

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I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

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There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.

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

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When I got up again, I'd shed the only part of me that had ever thought I'd find words for even the smallest bit of life.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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These things were lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone ever taking the time to write it all down.

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I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

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Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not to try at all.

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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.

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Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything

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There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

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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.

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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.

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ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.

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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.

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Our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.

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No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is.

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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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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.

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