“In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But so much more happens to you. There's more at stake in life.” KindFeelingsHappensYouthAccessStakes Author:Nicole Krauss
“I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust the reader to know for themselves and not to need too much. You have your own imagination, your own experiences, your own feelings, and a novel wants ultimately to ask questions. It doesn't assert anything, or shouldn't, I think.” ThinkingFeelingsImaginationNovelWant U Author:Nicole Krauss
“Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges and absorbs the impact.” WorldHeartStillsFeelingsLyingImaginationPiecesImpossibleWrittenPaintingCapacityImpactFathomNew Feelings Book:The History of Love: A Novel Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different.” DifferentFeelingsBodyOceanWaveStomachAcheDove Book:The History of Love: A Novel Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“When at last I came upon 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.” MadeBookFeelingsLastsDangerousViolentHoles Book:Great House: A Novel Source: Great House: A Novel
“I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any time, without any effort. The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice.” IfsWantFeelsMadeIdeasFeelingsLightEffortSurfaceIceLakesChairsPotThreatenedFrozenLampsUneasyDomestic LifeFrozen Lake Author:Nicole Krauss
“Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.” IfsGivingFirstsSometimesWholeFeelingsSeemsMightCertainUniverseRealizingChanceSacrificeSkyFiguresLike YouGiving UpPaintLandscapeQuartersInchesLeafsHolding OnLimiting YourselfHistory Of Love Author:Nicole Krauss
“Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact has an order, oblique as it may seem, and I a place within it.” WorldMaySometimesFactsFeelingsSeemsOrderRoomsEmptyDrinkingWanderTeaKitchenOverwhelmingWakingConsistentlyBlanket Book:Great House: A Novel Source: Great House: A Novel
“Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.” NeedsSometimesFeelingsMinutesHabitBunchRepeatsGestures Author:Nicole Krauss
“You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.” StillsHardFeelingsMy OwnDoubtImagine Author:Nicole Krauss
