335 Quotes by Nicole Krauss

One is always changing. I don’t want to write the same book and I couldn’t, because I’m a different person.

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.

Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been.

There’s no match for the silence of GOD.

If you don’t know what it feels like to have someone you love put a hand below your bottom rib for the first time, what chance is there for love?

It’s strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

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.

Part of you thought: Please don’t look at me. If you don’t, I can still turn away. And part of you thought. Look at me.

Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it’s intoxicating, and for a little while, you actually feel like you’ve become one with the other person, merged souls and so on. You think you’ll never be lonely again.