Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

• Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Grief, Grieving, Tragedy

  Elizabeth McCracken (2008). “An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• The cure for unhappiness is happiness,
  I don't care what anyone says.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Care, Unhappiness, Cures

  Elizabeth McCracken (2001). “Niagara Falls All Over Again”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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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 endless wonder.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Book, Ideas, Library

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.8, Random House

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• It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Miscarriage, Happy Life, Missing

  "Two mothers, two lost babies" by Rachel Stockley, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2009.

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• You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Sadness, Looks, Trouble

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• I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Marriage, Sports, Believe

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.127, Random House

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• 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.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Mentira, Libro, Biblioteca

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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 hand but by a willingness for research. i don’t dream of someone who understands me immediately, who seems to have known me my entire life, who says, i know me too. i want someone keen to learn my own strange organization, amazed at what’s revealed; someone who asks, and then what, and then what?

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  Dream, Kissing, Hands

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• As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the most basic proof of His existence is black humor. What else explains it, that odd, reliable comfort that billows up at the worst moments, like a beautiful sunset woven out of the smoke over a bombed city.

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  Beautiful, Believe, Sunset

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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, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Cousin, Children, Sibling

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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 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.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Lying, Waiting, Imagine

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• There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls: I don't know any writer who does both at the same time as brilliantly as Roxane Gay.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Gay, Soul, Brain

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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 - 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 love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness. Neither could James. He understood. In such situations, you do one of two things - you either walk away and deny yourself, or you do sneaky things to get what you need. You attend weddings, you go for walks. You say, yes. Yes, you're my best friend, too.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Girl, Unrequited Love, Boys

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• 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 idea that disappoints.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Ideas, People, Execution

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.189, Random House

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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 amazed by something a beloved knows that they themselves do not know; or they discover a common rare knowledge; or they can supply knowledge to someone who's lacking. Hasn't everyone found a strange ignorance in someone beguiling? . . .Nowadays, trendy librarians, wanting to be important, say, Knowledge is power. I know better. Knowledge is love.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Falling In Love, Believe, Ignorance

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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, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Children, Mean, Passion

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• My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Father, Insisting

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• Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Book, Remember

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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 in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Waiting, Listening, Dying

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• Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Car, People, Personality

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.7, Random House

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• Para algunas personas, la historia es simplemente aquello ante lo que su mujer se ve bien de pie. Es lo que se funde en bronce, se enmarca en tonos sepia o se representa con muñecos de cera y muebles de época. Tiene lugar en burbujas de cristal llenas de agua y trozos de nieve de plástico; se estampa en lápices de recuerdo y se resume en periódicos reimpresos. Hoy en día, la historia se registra en recuerdos. Si no se puede comprar una bolsa de la compra que aluda a algo, la gente no creerá que alguna vez ocurrió.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Believe, Shopping, Glasses

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• I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Comida, Gente, Cocina

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• Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Prayer, Engagement, Eating

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.199, Random House

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• In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Omission, Nonfiction, Sin

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• Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Memorable, Weather, Meals

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