#the history of love

[wordscanbeenough]

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

[metamorphesque]

to the person in the bell jar...

Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath’ / Vilhelm Hammershøi / Nicole Krauss, from ‘The History of Love’ / Ramon Casas / Joy Harjo, from ‘Speaking Tree’ / D S (saatchiart) / Fyodor Dostoevsky, from ‘The Idiot’ / Aleardo Terzi / Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Bell Jar’

[belamercado]

FRANZ KAFKA IS DEAD

He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."

-Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Lovers of Valdaro, discovered by archaeologists at a tomb in San Giorgio near Mantua, Italy. The couple have been holding one another for 6,000 years.

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“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

[nilesandcc]

@dollsome-does-tumblr tagged me to post my top 9 books! someone anyone anywhere talk to me about these books!!

tagging: @takingtheuniverse @ccbabcock @clumsycapitolunicorn @deeneedsaname @evandstuff @kassandra-lorelei @platypus-quacks-too @peetamellarkthebaker

[thethirdbear]

so many words get lost. they leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. on rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

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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

[hieuchels]

“Ngày xửa ngày xưa có một chàng trai rất yêu một cô gái, và nụ cười của cô gái ấy là câu hỏi mà anh muốn dùng cả cuộc đời để tìm câu trả lời"

— The History of Love, Nicole Krauss

[mirthofbooks]

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[savingquotes]

"I thought it would be strange to live in the world without her in it. And yet. I'd gotten used to living with her memory a long time ago."

Leopold Gursky, The History of Love.

[angelcakesponge]

Franz Kafka is dead - excerpt from The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

[litandlifequotes]

Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

[metamorphesque]

— The History of Love, Nicole Krauss

[text ID: The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.]

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@thespacebetweentheseconds via Instagram

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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Don’t set sail! Tomorrow the wind will have dropped; And then you can go, And I won’t trouble about you.

-from “The History of Love” :: Nicole Krauss