Nicole Krauss Quotes About Falling In Love

Quotes about: Falling In Love

• And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Girl, Falling In Love, Boys

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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.

  Nicole Krauss

  Falling In Love, Growing Up, College

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.54, W. W. Norton & Company

• When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close as you can get -- to another person only makes clear that impassable distance between you.' If being in love only made people more lonely, why would everyone want it so much?' Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again.

  Nicole Krauss

  Lonely, Falling In Love, Distance

• Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts, because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Fall, Average

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.202, W. W. Norton & Company

• But loneliness, true loneliness, is impossible to accustom oneself to, and while I was still young I thought of my situation as somehow temporary, and did not stop hoping and imagining that I would meet someone and fall in love...Yes, there was a time before I closed myself off to others.

  Nicole Krauss

  Falling In Love, Loneliness, Impossible

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.219, Penguin UK

• 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.

  Nicole Krauss

  Lonely, Falling In Love, Thinking

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