"After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies……" — 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 was killing was how nothing had changed. We’d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life."
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Elizabeth McCracken
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20 Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken has 20 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to…
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The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love 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…
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truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or…
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I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited…
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Books remember all the things you cannot contain.
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More Awfulness Quotes
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It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.
— Louise Doughty
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I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor.…
— Susan Hayward
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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to…
— Patrick Warburton
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I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of…
— Lynda Barry
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A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast,…
— Augustus William Hare
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Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
— Peter De Vries
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than…
— Desmond Tutu
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Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of…
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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…
— Emma Forrest
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I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the…
— Sarah Waters
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. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of…
— John Boyne
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