Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry Quotes

“My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry

“I had loved Portland. It was a clean city, with weather so delicate that at night you had to look at the streetlights to tell whether it was raining or snowing. Everything was heavier near Boston: air, accents, women.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry

“Like all good mothers, she always knew the worst was going to happen and was disappointed and relieved when it finally did.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry

“Don't run away from your troubles, because they'll sure as hell run faster.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry

“Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she wasn't, and it seemed she would never be, but it was clearly something she aspired to, since all the people she respected were.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry

“I told him that I apologised, that I understood, but really: I am not a museum, not yet, I'm a love letter, a love letter.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry

“Aunt Helen Beck did not believe in fate, but she did think that you made mistakes according to what you wanted in your heart, and she could not understand what it was she wanted this time, what she was trying to tell herself.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry

“Dad hated those people so inconsiderate as to move in, move out, never making a noise, a scene, a mark, a complaint. A good story when you left was the only rent he insisted on.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry

“An old trailer flashed by, the round sort that had always looked to her like a thermos bottle, as if the people inside needed protection against rot.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry