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.


An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (ed. Random House, 2011) - ISBN: 9781409016472

Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

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…....

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…....

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…....

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…....