"Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready……" — 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 their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others."
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Elizabeth McCracken
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20 Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken
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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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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…
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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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