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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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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different…
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The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably…
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As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away…
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But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries.…
— Sergey Brin
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Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know…
— William O. Douglas
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Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How…
— Sherman Alexie
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Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field.
— Horace Mann
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open…
— Alan Bradley
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Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them,…
— Laurel Lea
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends,…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
— Cornelia Funke
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