Quotes from Nicole Krauss, Great House

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

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.