Nicole Krauss Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces. Or better to say, in my face. Grammar of my life: as a rule of thumb, wherever there appears a plural, correct for singular. Should I ever let slip a royal We, put me out of my misery with a swift blow to the head.

  Nicole Krauss

  Blow, Doors, Long Ago

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

• We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it’s there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait.

  Nicole Krauss

  Waiting, Patterns, Tents

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

• No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

  Nicole Krauss

  Justice, Waiting, Storm

• All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.

  Nicole Krauss

  Empty Rooms, Doors, Self

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.259, W. W. Norton & Company

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