# Quote — Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

> The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain [...] You could tell that he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who?

- 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)
- Page: 351
- 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/the-little-boy

## 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)