We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough... - Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
"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."
More quotes by Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit"