Nicole Krauss Quotes

Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.

Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.

You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

You are so close, and I can’t reach you.

Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age; neither sex nor sexual preference; race nor mind-set.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Yves Saint Laurent didn't have friends. He loved nobody. He was intimate with nobody.

Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.” He closed the distance between them. “You’ll get used to it.” He tipped her face up to his, kissed her. “Why? Why am I the one?” “Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it.

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

I would say love is something everybody talks about, and the need for love is one of the most basic needs of man, namely the experience of union with another being - of becoming one with another being.

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands

We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly. And we felt torn, torn for some word we could not find.

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.

Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.