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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
Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Though my love for you is infinitesimal, your eyes are as dewey as any old decimal.
— Elizabeth McCracken
You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.
— Elizabeth McCracken
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
I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.
— Elizabeth McCracken
It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Like all good mothers, she always knew the worst was going to happen and was disappointed and relieved when it finally did.
— Elizabeth McCracken
My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.
— Elizabeth McCracken
No one has asked me a question yet, but I will not shut up.
— Elizabeth McCracken
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
Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.
— Elizabeth McCracken
You cannot fly into your own arms.
— Elizabeth McCracken
I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.
— Elizabeth McCracken
I sort of don't believe in closure. In the sense that it doesn't make me feel better to think that something is over.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Books remember all the things you cannot contain.
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The cure for unhappiness is happiness,I don't care what anyone says. — Elizabeth McCracken
Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.
— Elizabeth McCracken
For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.
— Elizabeth McCracken
In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.
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I didn't know what it was I was feeling. Then I realized it was seeing someone and knowing immediately that you love him.
— Elizabeth McCracken
I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book.
— Elizabeth McCracken
He was talking to strangers, hoping they would absolve him. They are the only ones who ever can.
— Elizabeth McCracken
I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.
— Elizabeth McCracken
People think they're interesting. That's their first mistake.
— Elizabeth McCracken
I believe marriage is a spectator sport.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.
— Elizabeth McCracken
But a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently.
— Elizabeth McCracken
I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.
— Elizabeth McCracken
She had a rear end as big as an open dictionary and a bad attitude.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours.
— Elizabeth McCracken
I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.
— Elizabeth McCracken
It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.
— Elizabeth McCracken
I told him that I apologised, that I understood, but really: I am not a museum, not yet, I'm a love letter, a love letter.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.
— Elizabeth McCracken
I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.
— Elizabeth McCracken
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
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.
— Elizabeth McCracken
But you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.
— Elizabeth McCracken
All she really wanted was to go to her apartment, to her bedroom, to the back of her walk-in closet, to sit among the shoes.
— Elizabeth McCracken
I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Said. "I'm just not ready yet." It would take something other than my daily nagging. So one night, a night I knew would be
— Elizabeth McCracken
I have been the person who tries to keep conversation light while talking to someone whose heart has been smashed.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.
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You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'
— Elizabeth McCracken
It's a happy life and someone is missing.
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Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.
— Elizabeth McCracken
But you cannot fly away from people who have flown away from you; you cannot fly into your own arms.
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History remembers the velvet hearted.
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Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Don't run away from your troubles, because they'll sure as hell run faster.
— Elizabeth McCracken