Nicole Krauss Quote

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

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.

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.

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...

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...