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

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 - turne…

- Elizabeth Mccracken

People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain climber wh…

- Elizabeth Mccracken

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

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 belov…

- Elizabeth Mccracken

truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by a willingness for research. i do…

- Elizabeth Mccracken

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

- Elizabeth Mccracken

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

- Elizabeth Mccracken

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