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....

Perhaps it goes without saying that I believe in the geographic cure. Of course you can't out-travel....

Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James....

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

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

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours.

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

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