Quotes by : Nicole Krauss

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish....

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are....

Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant,....

The woman who later became his wife was sleeping in his bed, her face buried in the pillows and her feet....

Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no longer....

There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another....

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

You fall in love, it's intoxicating, an for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with....

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we....

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?