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> [“Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she wasn't, and it seemed she would never be, but it was clearly something she aspired to,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/aunt-helen-beck-had-many-intentions-about-her-death-she-was-about/)

[Elizabeth McCracken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-mccracken/)

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## More by Elizabeth McCracken

> [“Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/aunt-helen-beck-had-many-intentions-about-her-death-she-was-about/)

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> [“But you cannot fly away from people who have flown away from you; you cannot fly into your own arms.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/but-you-cannot-fly-away-from-people-who-have-flown-away-from-you-you/)

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> [Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/engagements-they-are-like-a-prayer-before-eating-best-quick/)

[Elizabeth McCracken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-mccracken/)

> [“Though my love for you is infinitesimal, your eyes are as dewey as any old decimal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/though-my-love-for-you-is-infinitesimal-your-eyes-are-as-dewey-as-any/)

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> [“For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We'd been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/for-us-what-was-killing-was-how-nothing-had-changed-we-d-been-waiting/)

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> [Books remember all the things you cannot contain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/books-remember-all-the-things-you-cannot-contain/)

[Elizabeth McCracken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-mccracken/)

> [In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/in-reference-works-as-in-sin-omission-is-as-bad-as-willful-misbehavior/)

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> [After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/after-most-deaths-i-imagine-the-awfulness-lies-in-how-everything-s/)

[Elizabeth McCracken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-mccracken/)

> [“I told him that I apologised, that I understood, but really: I am not a museum, not yet, I'm a love letter, a love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/i-told-him-that-i-apologised-that-i-understood-but-really-i-am-not-a/)

[Elizabeth McCracken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-mccracken/)

> [“When I was a teenager in Boston, a man on the subway handed me a card printed with tiny pictures of hands spelling out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/when-i-was-a-teenager-in-boston-a-man-on-the-subway-handed-me-a-card/)

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> [“I'm thinking of that Florida lady again, the one who wanted a book about the lighter side of a child's death, and I know:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/i-m-thinking-of-that-florida-lady-again-the-one-who-wanted-a-book/)

[Elizabeth McCracken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-mccracken/)

> [“History remembers the velvet hearted.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/history-remembers-the-velvet-hearted/)

[Elizabeth McCracken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-mccracken/)

> [“Single people eat sadly--they cobble together things left from shopping trips based on dreams of all the meals they'd fix for themselves, all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/single-people-eat-sadly-they-cobble-together-things-left-from/)

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> [Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/librarian-like-stewardess-certified-public-accountant-used-car/)

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> [Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/library-books-were-i-suddenly-realized-promiscuous-ready-to-lie-down/)

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