Words Wednesday: Nicole Krauss
Happy Words Wednesday! We’re back after a week’s break with a Nicole Krauss quote. Krauss is the acclaimed American author of several works of fiction including The History of Love.
This Nicole Krauss quote comes from her second published work, The History of Love. Published in 2005, the novel was a finalist for the Orange Prize in Fiction the following year. Fairly or not, The History of Love tends to be compared to the work of Krauss’s then-husband Jonathan Safran Foer. That work, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, was also Safran’s second novel, and the two works share several main character types and plot points: intelligent-beyond-their-years children without fathers who go on journeys to discover something and along the way stumble into remnants of Jewish heritage and historical and personal tragedies. As Entertainment Weekly summarizes: “Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Krauss’ The History of Love beg to be judged against each other. So here goes: Her book is better.”
Regardless of which novel or author you find deeper, more interesting, or more touching, this Nicole Krauss quote is a beautiful tidbit from her equally beautiful book:
“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.”
-Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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