Nicole Krauss Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Cute, Romantic

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

• One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Ambition, Night

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

• For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Wedding, Moon

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

• there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Sad, Two

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.155, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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

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