Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

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• It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.
• Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something…
• For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones,…
• All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children,…
• Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed,…
• Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited…
• 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 was…
• A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good…
• The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.
• but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they…
• truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by…
• I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love - plain desperate aboveboard…
• Books remember all the things you cannot contain.
• Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores…
• As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the…
• People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain climber what he…
• And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the…
• Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their…
• Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.
• My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

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