They--the books I mean, not the ladies of Technical Services, though maybe those ladies too--might have dreamed of a different life in a private home, beloved and displayed and well dressed and only occasionally, dreamily read, but they belonged to the city now and had to work for the common good.
Elizabeth McCrackenSingle people eat sadly--they cobble together things left from shopping trips based on dreams of all the meals they'd fix for themselves, all the ways they'd treat themselves to something grand; those dreams, for me, died by the next day and, despite my best hopes, I wanted only canned hash and apples.
Elizabeth McCrackenI learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy of their own homes or on park benches or on public buses, in the corner of the reference room, at the end of an aisle of fiction, in the middle of the alphabet, they club up and conspire.
Elizabeth McCrackenCan 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 McCrackenPatty Flood and her good mood were starting to get on my nerves. Her mood was so good it was almost a physical thing, a monkey on a leash that she let leap all over the furniture, delighting only its owner.
Elizabeth McCrackenTags: cheerfulness
The cure for unhappiness is happiness,
I don't care what anyone says.
It's a happy life and someone is missing.
Elizabeth McCrackenTags: death loss-of-a-baby
Lighter things will happen to you, birds will steal your husband's sandwich on the beach, and your child will still be dead, and your husband's shock will still be funny.
Elizabeth McCrackenNo one has asked me a question yet, but I will not shut up.
Elizabeth McCrackenThough my love for you is infinitesimal, your eyes are as dewey as any old decimal.
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