“You have a thousand chances to make something right. That's a heck of a lot of chances, by the way. But they… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we… — Gabrielle Zevin Love Copy Share Image
“But it's the only way I know to move forward. You make a list and then you go and do the things… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt… — Gabrielle Zevin Alive Copy Share Image
“She sleeps; she sleeps. And when she sleeps, she dreams. And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost… — Gabrielle Zevin Dreams Copy Share Image
“I also think people didn’t truly understand the Internet back then, if indeed they can be said to understand it now.” — Gabrielle Zevin Internet Copy Share Image
When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours,… — Gabrielle Zevin Book Copy Share Image
Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up. — Gabrielle Zevin Girl Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you fact-check and research the congressman’s speeches. The year is 1999, and you seem to be the only one in the… — Gabrielle Zevin Communication Copy Share Image
“An echo makes good company, Old Margaret said. Whenever I'm lonely, I always try to find one to talk to. They're much… — Gabrielle Zevin Business Copy Share Image
Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“She dates some - women and men. She has slipped into bisexuality without needing to make a big thing about it. She… — Gabrielle Zevin Bisexuality Copy Share Image
I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“You are not a beautiful girl, and even if you were, you know that is not related to how much sex a… — Gabrielle Zevin Beautiful people Copy Share Image
“He is thinking about his brain. It strikes him that it is odd to have to use the thing that may not… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you’re the only person in the room. —” — Gabrielle Zevin Love Copy Share Image
“Life is messy,” Dr. Lau was fond of saying. “Deal with it. If you’re judging it, you’re not really seeing it.” — Gabrielle Zevin Life Copy Share Image
I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“It had not been a lonely childhood, though many of her intimates had been somewhat less than real.” — Gabrielle Zevin Childhood Copy Share Image
“I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn’t? When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure… — Gabrielle Zevin Architecture Copy Share Image
“My point is, it’s tempting,” she said. “It is certainly tempting to continue on with something because it has already begun.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told… — Gabrielle Zevin Lies 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 Death Copy Share Image
“Because the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I had thought the way I felt about Will was just a room, but it had turned out to be a mansion.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Despite what I said before, it had not been a fear of infecting other people or poor health that had stopped me… — Gabrielle Zevin Fear Copy Share Image
“But the best parts of him were in his books. I suppose I could always read those if I missed him too… — Gabrielle Zevin Books 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
“The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time. How light.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Beauties” by Anton Chekhov, “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J. D. Salinger, “Brownies” or “Drinking… — Gabrielle Zevin Beauties Copy Share Image
“But in the end, it had been a long day, and it was easier to stare at her phone for the next… — Gabrielle Zevin Long day Copy Share Image
“Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look… — Gabrielle Zevin Book Copy Share Image
“Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who… — Gabrielle Zevin Book Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
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… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Proto-postmodernist story of a habitual gambler and his bested frog. The plot isn’t much, but it’s worth reading because of the fun… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
