“when at last i came across the right book the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because i couldn’t control what came through it.” - lies told by children, nicole krauss
“when i got older i decided i wanted to be a real writer. i tried to write about real things. i wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.” - the history of love, nicole krauss