“Friendship,” Marx said, “is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.” — Gabrielle Zevin Friend Copy Share Image
“His eyes were blazing and I swear I could smell the testosterone coming off him.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.” — Gabrielle Zevin Books Copy Share Image
“He looked like a charcoal drawing of a man. In death, he was blacks and whites.” — Gabrielle Zevin Death 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
“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
“The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time. How light.” — Gabrielle Zevin 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
“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
“Your extracurricular activities are definitely somewhat lackluster, Annie." "What? Being the daughter of a celebrated criminal doesn't count as an extracurricular activity?"… — Gabrielle Zevin Children 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 Death Copy Share Image
“Incidentally, you're not a baby because you have nightmares, Natty. Something terrible happened to you when you were little, and that's why… — Gabrielle Zevin Nightmares Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel like the wedding is a Trojan horse. The dream I peddle to distract from the reality of a marriage.… — Gabrielle Zevin Dreams Copy Share Image
“Give Win back his hat," I told Natty. "It looks good on me," she said, batting her eyelashes. I took it off… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They're the last… — Gabrielle Zevin Forgotten love 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 Death Copy Share Image
“YOU CAN KIND of see them if you get on your tippy toes and look over the fence,” A.J. says. “There, in… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“CHIEF LAMBIASE IS a frequent visitor to the store, and to justify these visits, he buys books. Because Lambiase doesn’t believe in… — Gabrielle Zevin Books Copy Share Image
Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen… — Gabrielle Zevin Baking Copy Share Image
Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there.… — Gabrielle Zevin Closeness Copy Share Image
“Owen doesn't watch when they place Liz in the River, next to all the other babies who would be born that day.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“There will be other lives. There will be other lives for nervous boys with sweaty palms, for bittersweet fumblings in the backseats… — Gabrielle Zevin Human life 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 Conformity Copy Share Image
Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It… — Gabrielle Zevin Book Copy Share Image
