Citas de Elizabeth McCracken

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

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Grief, Grieving, Tragedy

  Elizabeth McCracken (2008). “An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• The cure for unhappiness is happiness,
  I don't care what anyone says.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Care, Unhappiness, Cures

  Elizabeth McCracken (2001). “Niagara Falls All Over Again”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Book, Ideas, Library

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.8, Random House

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• It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Miscarriage, Happy Life, Missing

  "Two mothers, two lost babies" by Rachel Stockley, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2009.

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• You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Sadness, Looks, Trouble

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• I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Marriage, Sports, Believe

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.127, Random House

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• Los libros de las bibliotecas eran, me di cuenta de repente, promiscuos, dispuestos a echarse en los brazos de cualquiera que se lo pidiera. No como los libros de las librerías, que se casaban con sus compradores o eran intermediarios para casarse con otros.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Mentira, Libro, Biblioteca

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• a decir verdad, este es el tejido de todas mis fantasías: el amor mostrado no por un beso o una mirada salvaje o una mano cuidadosa, sino por una voluntad de investigación. no sueño con alguien que me entienda de inmediato, que parezca haberme conocido toda mi vida, que diga, yo también me conozco. quiero a alguien deseoso de aprender mi propia extraña organización, asombrado por lo que se revela; alguien que pregunte, ¿y luego qué, y luego qué?

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Dream, Kissing, Hands

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• 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

  Beautiful, Believe, Sunset

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• 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

  Cousin, Children, Sibling

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• 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.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Lying, Waiting, Imagine

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• There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls: I don't know any writer who does both at the same time as brilliantly as Roxane Gay.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Gay, Soul, Brain

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• I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love - plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing - turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness. Neither could James. He understood. In such situations, you do one of two things - you either walk away and deny yourself, or you do sneaky things to get what you need. You attend weddings, you go for walks. You say, yes. Yes, you're my best friend, too.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Girl, Unrequited Love, Boys

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• 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.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Ideas, People, Execution

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.189, Random House

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• 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.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Falling In Love, Believe, Ignorance

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• 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.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Children, Mean, Passion

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• My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Father, Insisting

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• Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Book, Remember

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• 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.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Waiting, Listening, Dying

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• Bibliotecario como azafata, contable público certificado, vendedor de coches usados es una de esas ocupaciones que la gente asume atraer a una cierta personalidad deformada.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Car, People, Personality

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.7, Random House

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• Para algunas personas, la historia es simplemente aquello ante lo que su mujer se ve bien de pie. Es lo que se funde en bronce, se enmarca en tonos sepia o se representa con muñecos de cera y muebles de época. Tiene lugar en burbujas de cristal llenas de agua y trozos de nieve de plástico; se estampa en lápices de recuerdo y se resume en periódicos reimpresos. Hoy en día, la historia se registra en recuerdos. Si no se puede comprar una bolsa de la compra que aluda a algo, la gente no creerá que alguna vez ocurrió.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Believe, Shopping, Glasses

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• La gente cree que los bibliotecarios no son románticos ni imaginativos. Eso no es cierto. Somos personas cuyos sueños discurren por caminos particulares. Pregúntele a un alpinista qué siente cuando ve una montaña; a un domador de leones qué pasa por su mente cuando conoce a un nuevo león; a un médico que se enfrenta a un hermoso cuerpo que funciona mal. La idea de una biblioteca llena de libros, los libros llenos de conocimiento, me llena de miedo y amor y coraje y maravilla sin fin.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Hermoso, Correr, Soñar

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• El fuego es un lector veloz, por eso los ignorantes queman libros: el fuego corre a través de las páginas, se ocupa de todo el conocimiento y nunca te aburre con un resumen.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Book, Fire, Race

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.250, Random House

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• pero no puedes pasarte la vida esperando que la gente te haga las preguntas correctas. debes aprender a amar y responder a las preguntas que ya te hacen.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  People, Answers, Whole Life

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.85, Random House

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• Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Unrequited Love, Boys, Missing

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