Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality. — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch,… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed… — 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
People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked… — 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
