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 KraussLife in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.
Nicole KraussI opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.
Nicole KraussPart of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.
Nicole KraussFor 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