Elizabeth Crane > Quotes

“For one thing, she hadn't exactly chosen a field; although she has since childhood imagined picking up her Oscar, the category has never been determined. There was some thought that by the time she grew up they would give out Oscars for Best Novel (and that by then she would have written one), or that maybe she would just get some kind of honorary Oscar for her distinctive life observations made in everyday conversations, or the occasional letter. ”
― Elizabeth Crane

“Your self-doubt resides elsewhere and calcifies until it’s not even doubt anymore. You are certain that everything else about you is bad. You’re definitely not the best person. You’re not the prettiest, you’re not the thinnest, you’re not the smartest, you’re not the -est anything, except when it comes to singing. You do know how talented you are. This may be the only thing about you that you know is truly good.”
― Elizabeth Crane, The History of Great Things

“Russell made a comment to Charlotte about how she struck him as being really kind of healthy, in an emotional way, which wasn't completely surprising -- she knew she was fairly adroit at making people think she had it going on in that way (which gets into another whole thing about whether that was really a useful trait, which in fact she was pretty sure it wasn't, considering that maybe she could actually get some help from people, if she were willing to admit she needed any).”
― Elizabeth Crane, All This Heavenly Glory

“You believe in expressing all feelings at all times, though this has never been a successful practice for you insofar as your feeling-expression resulting in any real change.”
― Elizabeth Crane, The History of Great Things

“Charlotte is the sort of person who's inclined to feel guilty imagining so much as a kiss between her and someone who's already involved, the sort of person who can't really even manage a fantasy about a movie star who might be married, much as she finds, let's say, Andy Garcia to be worth imagnining, Charlotte is the sort of person who will have to get Andy Garcia divorced, within the fantasy but having nothing to do with having met her, he has to be divorced prior to having met her in order for her to think about kissing him, and so Charlotte tends to find it easier to just fantasize about celebrities she knows are single than to go to all that trouble. ”
― Elizabeth Crane, All This Heavenly Glory

“you’re disappointed that he doesn’t get it, though you’re not surprised. He’s never really gotten you. He loves you and takes care of you, and you thought that would be enough.”
― Elizabeth Crane, The History of Great Things

“Everything that comes into Jean's view these days is met with this kind of abject indifference. She feels as thought she has exhausted her life's allotment of emotion, good and bad.”
― Elizabeth Crane, We Only Know So Much

“Percival Everett by Virgil Russell,”
― Elizabeth Crane, The History of Great Things

“He's failed her as much as she's betrayed him. Nothing more needs to be known or said.”
― Elizabeth Crane, We Only Know So Much

“But the point is that I didn’t want this book to depict events with any accuracy. I am a fan of whatever you want to call this category of fiction in which authors use their real names for their character names.”
― Elizabeth Crane, The History of Great Things

“The man, as you add it up, does whatever he feels like or doesn’t, and the woman does everything else. The why of it, you have no idea.”
― Elizabeth Crane, The History of Great Things