Quotes by : Elizabeth McCracken

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises....

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

When I was a teenager in Boston, a man on the subway handed me a card printed with tiny pictures of hands....

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

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at....

My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that....

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked.....

Books are a bad family - there are those you love, and those you are indifferent to; idiots and mad cousins....

Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.

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