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Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up. (Gabrielle Zevin)
I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity. View quote
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Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too. View quote
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In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you. View quote
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book. View quote
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self. View quote
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key. View quote
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I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing. View quote
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I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time. View quote
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What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to? View quote
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A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love. (Gabrielle Zevin)
Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children. View quote
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Someday, we'll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I'll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that's when I'll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, because I'm liable to sink us both. View quote
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You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question. View quote
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We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on. View quote
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And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow. View quote
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The words you can't find, you borrow. View quote
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When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy. View quote
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Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual. View quote
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Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together. View quote
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Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched... (Gabrielle Zevin)
Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think? View quote
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I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork. View quote
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Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever? View quote
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It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it. View quote
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