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"The words of our childhood became strangers to us- we couldnt use them in the same way and so we chose not to use them at all. Life demanded a new language."
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Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in The Best American Short Stories 2003, The Be
"The words of our childhood became strangers to us- we couldnt use them in the same way and so we chose not to use them at all. Life demanded a new language."
"All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen."
"When I got up again, Id shed the only part of me that had ever thought Id find words for even the smallest bit of life."
"Even after the only person whose opinion I cared about left on a boat for America, I continued to fill pages with her name."
"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."
"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."