“And then, because the world is relentless this way, it was spring.” — Gabrielle Zevin Flower Copy Share Image
“You know what they say. Cold hands. Warm heart," Yuji said. "Or is it the reverse?” — Gabrielle Zevin Warm heart Copy Share Image
“What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I know what words do, he thinks. They let us feel less. “No,” — Gabrielle Zevin Language Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road.” — Gabrielle Zevin Death Copy Share Image
“Well, I’m warning you. I could be a bad book with a good jacket.” — Gabrielle Zevin Book Copy Share Image
It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“You love being Ruby’s mother, but loving Ruby does not stop you from wanting things for yourself.” — Gabrielle Zevin Mother Copy Share Image
Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the… — Gabrielle Zevin Crossing the street Copy Share Image
“I thought of summer as the living time; the rest of the year was the backward time, the writing time.” — Gabrielle Zevin Life Copy Share Image
“They were an indistinct blur of pastel and white uniforms, like chalk doodles on a sidewalk in the rain.” — 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 Death Copy Share Image
“I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We… — Gabrielle Zevin Beautiful Copy Share Image
“An e-reader! I’ve wanted one for a really long time.” She shoots a quick look over to her father. He nods, though… — Gabrielle Zevin Grandmother Copy Share Image
“We had been there about four days when she said, “It feels like last year was a dream,” she said. “It feels… — Gabrielle Zevin Dreams Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy… — Gabrielle Zevin Author Copy Share Image
But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about… — Gabrielle Zevin Curiosity Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly.… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
Speak up,' says Myrna who has a fuzzy white caterpillar of a moustache. 'My hearing's not so good.' 'I WAS SHOT IN… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are… — Gabrielle Zevin Book Copy Share Image
“Anticipating the worst doesn’t provide insurance from the worst happening,” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts. — Gabrielle Zevin Deep thought Copy Share Image
“I felt guilty, but lighter. I had turned my problem into someone else’s.” — Gabrielle Zevin Guilty Copy Share Image
“The real gift of the holiday season, A.J. thinks, is that it ends.” — Gabrielle Zevin Christmas Copy Share Image
