3 Nicole Krauss Quotes on Growth

Nicole Krauss quotes on growth

2. 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]

8. 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.

12. 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?