Nicole Krauss Quotes

My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.

Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.

Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

My best friend is my husband.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.

The wonderful thing about my husband is that we are very good at being independent.

I am so in love with my family, and I am so in love with my husband.

Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery.

I think intimacy is the last taboo in many ways.

I think there's nobody closer in the world than your own husband. And we are very passionate about what we do, very competitive.

He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are.

I said to my husband, 'Why don't you call out my name when we're making love?' He said, 'I don't want to wake you up.'

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.

And you are worth the time it takes to take the time to get to know you. We've managed to muttle through the awkward stage of i like you and you like me, but when we both finally said 'yes' life became a multiple choice test, not knowing anything we became each others best guess. and, holding your hand is less like exploration and more like discovery. lady, i don't have to study you to be sure. you're the choice i made before i knew what the other choices were

I'm an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.

I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed his hand. "And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.

I don't profess to know anything about marriage that anybody else doesn't know, or how to make it right. I don't want to read about somebody who's giving me relationship advice. So I try to keep some things for myself, to have a private life.

My husband knows me better than anyone.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...