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Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don’t care what anyone says Picture Quote #1

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality Picture Quote #1

The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar Picture Quote #1

When you’ve lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was Picture Quote #1

There’s a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpacks with their scavenged baseball caps on backwards, I will be in my rocking chair saying bitterly, ‘I remember when ‘all right’ was two words.’ Picture Quote #1

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people Picture Quote #1

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I’ve always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you Picture Quote #1

I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it’s a big book Picture Quote #1

Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don’t be afraid of grieving parents Picture Quote #1

You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I’m speaking of life, not writing - is ‘no humor too black.’ Picture Quote #1

There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books Picture Quote #1

It’s an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas Picture Quote #1

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It’s hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live Picture Quote #1

Ordinarily, I’d claim that I’d never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of ‘Peter Elroy’ is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I’d like my work to contain Picture Quote #1

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It’s a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder Picture Quote #1

When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel Picture Quote #1

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Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories Picture Quote #1

I have been the person who tries to keep conversation light while talking to someone whose heart has been smashed Picture Quote #1

At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader’s Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I believe marriage is a spectator sport Picture Quote #1

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Books remember all the things you cannot contain Picture Quote #1

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving Picture Quote #1

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were Picture Quote #1

The cure for unhappiness is happiness,I don’t care what anyone says Picture Quote #1

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior Picture Quote #1

Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable Picture Quote #1

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The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don’t care what anyone says (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) When you’ve lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) There’s a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpacks with their scavenged baseball caps on backwards, I will be in my rocking chair saying bitterly, ‘I remember when ‘all right’ was two words.’ (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) I’ve always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it’s a big book (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don’t be afraid of grieving parents. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I’m speaking of life, not writing - is ‘no humor too black.’ (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) It’s an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) It’s hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) Ordinarily, I’d claim that I’d never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of ‘Peter Elroy’ is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I’d like my work to contain. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It’s a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) 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. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) I have been the person who tries to keep conversation light while talking to someone whose heart has been smashed. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader’s Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new. (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) 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 (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) 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 (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) I believe marriage is a spectator sport (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) Books remember all the things you cannot contain (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) The cure for unhappiness is happiness,I don’t care what anyone says (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes) Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable (Elizabeth McCracken Quotes)

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