# Quote — Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

> “Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no longer exists, on the edge of a field that no longer exists, where everything was discovered, and everything was possible. A stick could be a sword, a pebble could be a diamond, a tree, a castle. Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived in a house across the field, from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was queen and he was king. In the autumn light her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls, and when the sky grew dark, and they parted with leaves in their hair.

- Author: [Nicole Krauss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicole-krauss.md)
- Book: [The History of Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicole-krauss/the-history-of-love.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicole_Krauss#The_History_of_Love_(2005)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicole-krauss/the-history-of-love/once-upon-a-time

## More from this book

> Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement.

p. 349 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicole-krauss/the-history-of-love/sometimes-i-forget.md)

> The words of our childhood became strangers to us- we couldn't use them in the same way and so we chose not to use them at all. Life demanded a new language.

p. 6 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicole-krauss/the-history-of-love/the-words-of-our.md)

> Even after the only person whose opinion I cared about left on a boat for America, I continued to fill pages with her name.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicole-krauss/the-history-of-love/even-after-the.md)