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....

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of....

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....

I’m so sorry,” he said, because after Pamela died, he promised himself that if anyone told him the....

All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch,....

Here's what I think: when you're born, you're assigned a brain like you're assigned a desk, a nice desk,....

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long,....

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

When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories,....