Nicole Krauss The History of Love
Variant: Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 11
“Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.”
Source: The Book of Lost Things
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“But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.”
Variant: Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.
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“Begin, baby boy, to recognize your mother with a smile.”
Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem.
Book IV, line 60 (tr. Fairclough)
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Book II, Chapter 6, p. 299 (See also: John Milton)
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“Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.”
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