Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken

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.

Children

Mean

Passion

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

Lying

Waiting

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.

Children

Cousin

Sibling

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.

Execution

Ideas

People

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.

Beautiful

Believe

Sunset

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

Book

Remember

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

People

Whole Life

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

Listening

Waiting

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

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

Eating

Engagement

Prayer

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Answers

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Boys

Brain

Car

Care

Children

Cooking

Cousin

Cures

Dream

Dying

Eating

Engagement

Execution

Falling In Love

Father

Fire

Food

Gay

Girl

Glasses

Grief

Grieving

Hands

Happy Life

Ideas

Ignorance

Imagine

Insisting

Kissing

Library

Listening

Looks

Lying

Marriage

Meals

Mean

Memorable

Miscarriage

Missing

Nonfiction

Omission

Passion

People

Personality

Prayer

Race

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Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken

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.

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.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

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.

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

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