Nicole Krauss

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

- The words of our childhoof became strangrers to us- we couldn't use them in the same way and so we chose not to use them at all. Life demanded a new language.

- When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely. p.7

- Even after the only perosn whose opinion I cared about left on a boat for America, I continued to fill pages with her name. p.8

- 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. p.8

- 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. p. 11

- 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. p. 70

- Perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live withotu you. If so, no one was a greater father than I. p. 164