Nicole Krauss quote: "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."

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.
NICOLE KRAUSS

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

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we...
NICOLE KRAUSS

I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole yea...
NICOLE KRAUSS

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyo...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spen...
NICOLE KRAUSS

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out cl...
NICOLE KRAUSS

I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and h...
NICOLE KRAUSS

[A bookish child, she used to read at the dinner table, something that was not discouraged. She was ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cu...
NICOLE KRAUSS

And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another...
NICOLE KRAUSS

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?
NICOLE KRAUSS

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wis...
NICOLE KRAUSS

I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the form...
NICOLE KRAUSS

She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s tu...
NICOLE KRAUSS

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a patholog...
NICOLE KRAUSS

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?
NICOLE KRAUSS

HOW ANGELS SLEEP. Unsoundly. They toss and turn, trying to understand the mystery of the living. The...
NICOLE KRAUSS

George! ... Actually, I sort of like it when she does that.
NICOLE KRAUSS

Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no l...
NICOLE KRAUSS

She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the uni...
NICOLE KRAUSS

These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone tak...
NICOLE KRAUSS

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an...
NICOLE KRAUSS

He had slept next to her for thirty-six years, and the mattress felt different without her weight, h...
NICOLE KRAUSS

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the inf...
NICOLE KRAUSS

One day she marched around the side of the house and confronted me. "I've seen you out there every d...
NICOLE KRAUSS

15. WHENEVER I WENT OUT TO PLAY, MY MOTHER WANTED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE I WAS GOING TO BE

NICOLE KRAUSS

The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flo...
NICOLE KRAUSS

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP
Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Franz Kafka is Dead

He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they...
NICOLE KRAUSS

For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

I was never a man of great ambition
I cried too easily
I didn't have a head for science NICOLE KRAUSS

...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not th...
NICOLE KRAUSS

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wante...
NICOLE KRAUSS

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.
NICOLE KRAUSS

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.
NICOLE KRAUSS

She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows aro...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.
NICOLE KRAUSS

At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or t...
NICOLE KRAUSS

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts...
NICOLE KRAUSS

The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.
NICOLE KRAUSS

I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each time ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.
NICOLE KRAUSS

To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with...
NICOLE KRAUSS

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.
NICOLE KRAUSS

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to...
NICOLE KRAUSS

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales a...
ALISON KRAUSS

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.
KARL KRAUSS

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The cont...
ALISON KRAUSS

You say it best, when you say nothing at all.
ALLISON KRAUSS

Oh Mr.Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.
ALLISON KRAUSS

You have no idea what this means! Thanks, folks.
ALISON KRAUSS

Lonely Runs Both Ways. It's amazing to win for (Country) Album of the Year because we kind of just m...
ALISON KRAUSS

My Poor Old Heart, Forget About It.
ALISON KRAUSS

It sounded like a drag...so we recorded it.
ALISON KRAUSS

I grew up in Champaign, so this is very near the land of my people, ... Restless.
ALISON KRAUSS

I just appreciate the clarity of her voice.
ALISON KRAUSS

[The sign says,] 'Please do not climb on Mike,' ... Nooo problem.
ALISON KRAUSS

We knew we at least had overtime, but we wanted to try for a final shot. Tyson was able to get the b...
DOUG KRAUSS

Never in my wildest dreams would I think this would happen. When we started practice back on Nov. 6,...
DOUG KRAUSS

We knew we would at least have overtime. We would get one shot and see what happens.
DOUG KRAUSS

It's Game 20 or so. If you can't trust them by now, you're never going to trust them.
DOUG KRAUSS

Being able to go to Columbus for a third time in four years - I can't put in words.
DOUG KRAUSS

We knew we at least would have overtime. We just wanted to get a shot off and see what happens.
DOUG KRAUSS

We had hopes for a good season. We've put together a pretty nice run in the tournament.
DOUG KRAUSS

Our guys did a great job. They passed the ball well and shots went in. Guys make shots and it become...
DOUG KRAUSS

We will have to play probably our best game of the year to win on Saturday.
DOUG KRAUSS

We got off to a great start. We energized ourselves at both ends of the floor.
DOUG KRAUSS

When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a ...
ALISON KRAUSS

Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.
ALISON KRAUSS

They were dealing with 3000 patients at the same time, six doctors, two surgeons only, and so they r...
ERICH KRAUSS

I think this will significantly change the LDP.
ELLIS KRAUSS

If Koizumi wins, his party is not going to be the old LDP, ... Koizumi has become able to call the s...
ELLIS KRAUSS

He's purged the party of recalcitrant anti-reformers at least in one field, and others will get the ...
ELLIS KRAUSS

I think this will significantly change the LDP,
ELLIS KRAUSS

Party label and leadership image become more important...and thus who leads the party and what the p...
ELLIS KRAUSS

This election could mean a major jump to a much more Western-style system in Japanese politics -- th...
ELLIS KRAUSS

I don't think either party is the party of radical reform. Both will do evolutionary reform, and in ...
ELLIS KRAUSS

Popular nationalism and sometimes the Chinese government's manipulation of the issue, as well as Jap...
ELLIS KRAUSS

If you're looking for the next issue, it will be very tempting for people to say 'Let's do it now'.
ELLIS KRAUSS

You don't have to be young and handsome, but you have to be able to manage the media and project an ...
ELLIS KRAUSS

Except for their last two 3-pointers [in the final 22 seconds, when the game was decided], they only...
DAVE KRAUSS

We just didn't take care of the basketball. Part of that was Wauseon's defense, and part of that was...
DAVE KRAUSS

The good thing for us is that they never got too far ahead, so we never lost contact with them. They...
DAVE KRAUSS

I thought their shot was pretty well defended. We had a hand in his face, and the kid made a tough s...
DAVE KRAUSS

So, although my story is sometimes ugly, it's also beautiful.
NIKI KRAUSS

What I really hope to do is leave you dizzy by the end of this.
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

It's the best thing to do. It's unfortunate that this had to happen. Now, we can move forward to the...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

It's a difficult thing to do and I felt prepared to do it. But some people think you are embarrassin...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

The Dover trial changes the national profile a lot?.
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

What's ... important about this case is that it validates the separation of church and state. Even m...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

In science there often aren't two sides. You know, gravity works.
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

[The struggle to understand what seems unknowable] is something I love, ... to face up to the contin...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

That would give social structures more time to adapt.
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

Of course, there's still a lot to do.
RAY KRAUSS

I grew up listening to pop music with my dad in the car, and we'd just listen to Stevie Wonder, ...
MEGAN NICOLE

You don't have to be naked to be sexy.
NICOLE KIDMAN

Be sure of yourself, don't let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy.
NICOLE POLIZZI

When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. The...
SOLANGE NICOLE

I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids...
NICOLE BEHARIE

When I hit my thirties, that's when I calmed down and I wasn't so tough on myself. I wasn...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I've calmed down already. I don't hook up anymore.
NICOLE POLIZZI

I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light th...
NICOLE KIDMAN

If you don’t laugh reading this book I’ll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had ...
NICOLE FENDE

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.
NICOLE FENDE

It was clear to her now, Happiness was a seductive illusion. No one as fucked up as her deserved one...
SOLANGE NICOLE

the dragonrider. Ulric scowled darkly, and stomped over to take it from me. He slung it over his sho...
NICOLE CONWAY

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
NICOLE RICHIE

Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're will...
NICOLE YATSONSKY

Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.
NICOLE SOBON

I had a dream about you last night.. you were holding a pine cone and introducing him as Gerald.
NICOLE MCKAY

Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.
NICOLE GUILLAUME

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
NICOLE KIDMAN

That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, t...
NICOLE KIDMAN

I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He ha...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I live in New York. I have an amazing apartment over there; I have this amazing life over there that...
NICOLE TRUNFIO

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding.
NICOLE APPLETON

You're going to have haters and you're going to have lovers.
NICOLE POLIZZI

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three acad...
NICOLE ANDERSON

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy tar...
NICOLE ANDERSON

Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you&#...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake ...
NICOLE KIDMAN

I hate actual newspapers. In my opinion, they are only good for wrapping up presents or cleaning mir...
JASIKA NICOLE

I don't like my thighs, the back of my legs or my chubby knees. I wear clothes that show off my ...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I'm definitely not the type to have a sing-off. I'm not catty like that. I sing for the righ...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I've never seen myself as sexy. I see myself as a goofball.
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I think the sexiest thing about a man is that he's confident. Sure, sometimes you meet someone a...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever su...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

Growing up, I was very conservative in my wardrobe, so when I first joined the Pussycat Dolls, the b...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

When I'm a mum, I'm not going to be one of those mums who has nannies. Actually, I might hav...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I love what I do and I strive to be better; that's what keeps me going. I'm never a slacker,...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That'...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I think shoulders are sexier than cleavage.
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

It's important for a woman to feel good in her clothes. It's OK to have curves and to work t...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I've always had a fighter's spark in me. I was born with it. I think it's in my blood.
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless ...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

In normal life people say, 'You're so different than on stage!' Offstage I'm down to...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

When you break a sweat you just feel great. You've got your endorphins going. You feel better. Y...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it mo...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I definitely have the eye of the tiger. I've fought my way to where I am and will continue to do...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.
NICOLE MONES

She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth tre...
NICOLE LYONS

She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise.
NICOLE LYONS

You are all wave particles when I close my eyes. I am no more entranced by your entanglement than a ...
SOLANGE NICOLE

So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I woul...
NICOLE POLIZZI

Je suis partout où je suis.
NICOLE BROSSARD

I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnast...
NICOLE ANDERSON

The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.
NICOLE RICHIE

I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with ...
NICOLE LYONS

I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms o...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.
NICOLE KIDMAN

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm g...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.
NICOLE KIDMAN

Certainly not everybody that is different is necessarily autistic, but there are a lot of undiagnose...
JASIKA NICOLE

I truly love Australia; I miss Aussie kids and their attitude!
NICOLE TRUNFIO

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For m...
NICOLE KIDMAN

The bathing suits they had me wear on Baywatch were all one-pieces, which kill my figure.
NICOLE EGGERT

I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that...
NICOLE EGGERT

For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on th...
NICOLE EGGERT

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better perso...
NICOLE POLIZZI

I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren'...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

Music is just about having fun, being free, being yourself.
MEGAN NICOLE

I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could ...
NICOLE HOLOFCENER

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set th...
NICOLE RICHIE

New Orleans is kind of dark in a very beautiful way.
NICOLE ANDERSON

I befriend people too quickly - I don't think that's wrong, but I get told that I should be ...
NICOLE APPLETON

When life's got you down, keep your head up... you can't see the ground anyway
NICOLE RAE

My libido was doing the humpy dance while dressed in Milkbone pasties and a thong.
NICOLE PEELER

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....
NICOLE RICHIE

Someone once told me that life wasn't fair...and they were right. But I don't think that life was ev...
NICOLE GARBER

It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their...
SOLANGE NICOLE

She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And w...
NICOLE LYONS

She's an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind.
NICOLE LYONS

They say that the cuisines of different Chinese provinces arose originally to serve different kinds ...
NICOLE MONES

Real life... Witches: Wiccan practitioners. Werewolves: rare strain of rabies. Zombies: Prions/Plagu...
SOLANGE NICOLE

Oh how the candles will be lit and the wood of worm burn in a fiery dust. For on all Hallow's Eve wi...
SOLANGE NICOLE

There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kin...
NICOLE BEHARIE

I am a world of uncertainties disguised as a girl.
NICOLE LYONS

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.
NICOLE KIDMAN

I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don't know who I really am. They see...
NICOLE POLIZZI

I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just...
NICOLE KIDMAN

I think everybody's intensity level just picked up. We started to rebound a little bit better. We ra...
NICOLE WOLFF

All that nose twitching becomes quite addictive after a while. It was hard to switch off
NICOLE KIDMAN

I've heard The Demolitionist described, premise-wise, as 'RoboCop' meets 'The Crow&#...
NICOLE EGGERT

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketc...
NICOLE RICHIE

There's no right road to take us where we don't know. So let's just leave the tracks as we go.
NICOLE MEYER

They were a really tough team and went after the ball hard, but we could have boxed them out better....
NICOLE WOLFF

Not to be too detailed, but I've had an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriages and I've had fertili...
NICOLE KIDMAN

I love hanging out with friends. Honestly, one of my favorite things to do is have game night. Just ...
MEGAN NICOLE

Never change the person that you are just to fit in. You'll find your true friends that like you...
NICOLE ANDERSON

It's aching, I'm not going to lie.
NICOLE KOTHE

If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm ...
NICOLE KIDMAN

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.

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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.

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