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Let’s Get Out of This Country - Camera Obscura
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October 25, 2009, 3:23pm
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“Why do people always get named after dead people? If they have to be named after anything at all, why can’t it be things, which have more permanence, like the sky or the sea, or even ideas, which never really die, not even the bad ones?”
— The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
October 25, 2009, 3:22pm
“-“What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you’ve ever been?”
-“Of course I am.”
-“Why?”
-“Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.”
— The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
October 25, 2009, 3:22pm
“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.”
— The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
October 17, 2009, 11:55pm
“I took a drink, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand, repeating the gesture that was made a hundred times by my father and his father and his father’s father, eyes half closed as the sharpness of alcohol replaced the sharpness of grief. And then, when the bottle was gone, I danced. Slowly at first. But getting faster. I stomped my feet and kicked my legs, joints cracking. I pounded my feet and crouched and kicked in the dance my father danced, and his father, tears sliding down my face as I laughed and sang, danced and danced until my feet were raw and there was blood under my toenail, I danced the only way I knew how to dance: for life, crashing into the chairs, and spinning until I fell, so that I could get up and dance again, until dawn broke and found me prostrate on the floor, so close to death I could spit into it and whisper: L’chaim.”
— The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
October 17, 2009, 11:55pm
October 16, 2009, 7:07pm
“The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it- just to name it- must have been like trying to catch something invisible.”
— The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
October 16, 2009, 7:06pm
October 16, 2009, 7:06pm
October 16, 2009, 7:05pm
“Because 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.”
— The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
October 16, 2009, 4:39pm
