“ Se había ido, y lo único que quedaba era el espacio en que habías crecido en torno a ella, rodeándola, como crece un árbol rodeando una cerca. Nicole Krauss
“ It took seven languages to make me; it would have been nice if I could have spoken just one. But I couldn't, so he leaned down and kissed me. Nicole Krauss
“ I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each time he begins a book. Nicole Krauss
“ Bird asked what a paleontologist was and Mom said that if he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shred it into a hundred pieces, cast them into the wind from the muse… Nicole Krauss
“ She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads. Nicole Krauss
“ I looked at the map of India on the wall. Every 14-year-old should know the exact location of Calcutta. It wouldn't do to go around without the faintest clue of where Calcutta was. Nicole Krauss
“ Why do people always have to be named after dead people? If they had to be named after anything at all, why can't it be things, which have more permanence, like the sky or the sea, or even ideas...? Nicole Krauss
“ You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you’re like t… Nicole Krauss
“ I was familiar with the little mating rituals of getting to know each other, of dragging out the stories from childhood, summer camp, and high school, the famous humiliations, and the adorable things… Nicole Krauss
“ When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit Nicole Krauss
“ It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you. Nicole Krauss
“ So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and 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: Iw… Nicole Krauss
“ Así pues, él hizo lo más difícil que había hecho en su vida: cogió el sombrero y se fue. Y si el hombre que una vez fue el chico que prometió no enamorarse de ninguna otra muchacha mientras viviera cu… Nicole Krauss
“ I often wonder who will be the last person to see me alive. If I had to bet, I'd bet on the delivery boy from the Chinese take-out. I order in four nights out of seven. Whenever he comes I make a big… Nicole Krauss
“ These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone taking the time to write it all down. That Litvinoff had a wife who was so devoted is, to be frank, the… Nicole Krauss
“ 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. Nicole Krauss
“ HE LIKED TO COOK AND LAUGH AND SING, COULD START A FIRE WITH HIS HANDS, FIX THINGS THAT WERE BROKEN, AND EXPLAIN HOW TO LAUNCH THINGS INTO SPACE, BUT HE DIED WITHIN NINE MONTHS Nicole Krauss
