Nicole Krauss Quotes on Growth

3 quotes

  1. The words of our childhood became strangers 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. [citation needed]

  2. Perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so, no one was a greater father than I.

  3. The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain [...] You could tell that he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who?

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