Writer Quotes 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…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“But you cannot fly away from people who have flown away from you; you cannot fly into your own arms.”

— Elizabeth McCracken

Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

— Elizabeth McCracken

“Though my love for you is infinitesimal, your eyes are as dewey as any old decimal.”

— Elizabeth McCracken

“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

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

— Elizabeth McCracken

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

— Elizabeth McCracken

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

“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

“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

“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

“History remembers the velvet hearted.”

— 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…

— Elizabeth McCracken

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

— Elizabeth McCracken

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married…

— Elizabeth McCracken