More quotes by Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

"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."
"That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox."
"When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?"
"We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it."
"At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty."