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Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken (born 1966) is an American author.

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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 the questions they already ask.

Answers, Hoping, People, Questions, Right, Whole Life

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

Book, Fear, Ideas, Library, Wonder

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.

Boys, Love, Miss, Missing, Salesperson, Unrequited Love

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

Away, Look, Looks, Sadness, Trouble, Troubles

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.

Brain, Depths, Gay, Roxane, Soul

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

Believe, Marriage, Spectator, Sport, Sports

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.

Book, Library, Lying, Marriages, Promiscuous, Ready

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

Grief, Grieving, Longer, Sympathy, Tragedy

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

Desirable, Make, Meals, Memorable, Weather

For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it’s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you can’t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people won’t believe it ever happened.

Believe, Bronze, Glasses, Shopping, Wax

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.

Believe, Falling In Love, Ignorance, Knowledge, Rare, Say

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.

Imagine, Lies, Lying, Old, Waiting

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

Amazing, Father, Insisting, Right

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?

Dream, Kissing, Organization, Willingness

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.

Dying, Happened, James, Listening, Meant, Waiting

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.

Child, Children, Mean, Passion, Remembers, Story

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

Bad, Nonfiction, Omission, Sin

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

Care, Cure, Cures, Says, Unhappiness

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

Happy, Happy Life, Life, Miscarriage, Missing

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

Car, Certified, Occupations, People, Personality

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