He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His room was tiny, and every morning he had to squeeze around the truth just to get to the bathroom. To reach the armoire to get a pair of underpants he had to crawl under the truth, praying it wouldn't choose that moment to sit on his face. At night, when he closed his eyes, he felt it looming above him.
Nicole KraussIt's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.
Nicole KraussI take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.
Nicole KraussI was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips
Nicole Krauss