I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read … - Nicole Krauss

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I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

Nicole Krauss

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

Animal, Grass, Lying, Talking

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I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

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Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now.

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There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.

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I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.

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The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and saddest you've ever been in your whole life.

Become, Happiest, Littles, Mean, Today

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