Nicole Krauss

I'm saying life is a thing of beauty, Bruno. A thing of beauty and a joy forever.

A single rip is harder to bear than a hundred rips.

You're changing all the time. Every day a tiny bit. If I could, I'd keep a record of it all.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read.

For a while, new feelings were being invented all the time.

Desire was born early, as was regret

When stubbornness was felt for the first time, it started a chain reaction, creating the feeling of resentment on the one hand, and alienation and loneliness on the other.

It might have been a certain counterclockwise movement of the hips that marked the birth of ecstasy

a bolt of lightning that caused the first feeling of awe

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.