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“When I got up again, I'd shed the only part of me that had ever thought I'd find words for even the smallest bit of life.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 8

““Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no longer exists, on the edge of a field that no longer exists, where everything was discovered, and everything was possible. A stick could be a sword, a pebble could be a diamond, a tree, a castle. Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived in a house across the field, from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was queen and he was king. In the autumn light her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls, and when the sky grew dark, and they parted with leaves in their hair.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

The History of Love (2005)

“Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 349

“All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 5

“These things were lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone ever taking the time to write it all down.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 70