“He looked like a charcoal drawing of a man. In death, he was blacks and whites.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Living, it seemed to her, was the acquiring of bad habits. Dying, the process of rescinding them.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“You will be standing in that square forever. You will wear that “A” until you’re dead. You consider your options. You have… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“A.J. runs their credit cards and concludes that a theft is an acceptable social loss while a death is an isolating one.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Lights, bright enough to dilate her eyes. Horns, flaccid and come too late. Metal crumpling like tissue. The body was not in… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“...love, he thinks. What a bother. It's completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“She hasn't cried once. SHe doesn't understand that Margaret is dead. At that age, they can't fully understand the concept of death.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share
Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share
“I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine this goes… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share
I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share
“It is a lie that you should only speak from your heart- you ought to let your brain play a part too.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share
I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share
“Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share
“It is lucky, she thinks, that we don’t feel all the love inside us every moment. We couldn’t breathe or walk or eat. It… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share
Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share
