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Elizabeth McCracken has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.
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Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are…
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For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed…
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All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch,…
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Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James…
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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…
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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…
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A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human,…
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The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and…
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but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer…
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truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful…
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I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love -…
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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…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and…
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Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are.…
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Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and…
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This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why girls sleep…
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I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and…
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