“For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We'd been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“I want a book that acknowledges that life goes on but that death goes on, too, that a person who is dead… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“Here's what I think: when you're born, you're assigned a brain like you're assigned a desk, a nice desk, with plenty of… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“Ordinary-size people, they don't know: their lives have been rehearsed and rehearsed by every single person who ever lived before them, inventions… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“But a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently. You will try every day of your life. Order… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing. — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“I want a book that acknowledges that life goes on, but death goes on too, that a person who is dead is… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“But you cannot fly away from people who have flown away from you; you cannot fly into your own arms.” — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick. — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“Though my love for you is infinitesimal, your eyes are as dewey as any old decimal.” — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“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… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“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… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“When I was a teenager in Boston, a man on the subway handed me a card printed with tiny pictures of hands spelling out… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“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:… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
