Gabrielle Zevin quotes

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart. (Gabrielle Zevin)
It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn't live without him. Apparently I could. View quote
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But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it? View quote
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They should tell you when you're born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. View quote
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People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere. View quote
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It's difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything's changed. View quote
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It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway. View quote
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In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end. View quote
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The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love. View quote
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Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead. View quote
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Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop. (Gabrielle Zevin)
I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories. View quote
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There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had. View quote
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I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn't turned out to be. View quote
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A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length. View quote
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There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive. View quote
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Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me... I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street. View quote
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My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much. View quote
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No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do. View quote
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Sometimes books don't find us until the right time. View quote
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You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you. (Gabrielle Zevin)
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life. View quote
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And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore. View quote
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Ask two people to tell you anything, you'll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don't know something for yourself, you just can't be sure. View quote
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...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them. View quote
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