"For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love..."

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Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

Nicole Krauss

#Love Quotes #Wedding Quotes #Moon Quotes

“My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
“You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. You've been backstage. You've seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a Âromantic relationship, unless you want to break up.”
“Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.”
“Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.”
“Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.”

Source : Edgar Saltus (2015). “The Paliser case”, p.40, Booklassic
“These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.”
“Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.”
“I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.”

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