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Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

Nicole Krauss
Love, Cute, Romantic
Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.

Nicole Krauss
Love, Ambition, Night
Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love.

Nicole Krauss
Love, Wedding, Moon
Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

Nicole Krauss
Love, Sad, Two
Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.155, W. W. Norton & Company

Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts, because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him.

Nicole Krauss
Love, Fall, Average
Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.202, W. W. Norton & Company

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