“In high school, you read The Scarlet Letter, and it occurs to you that this is what the Internet is like.” — Gabrielle Zevin High school Copy Share Image
“She had resisted returning there [to Los Angeles, the city of her birth] because to return to one's home town felt like… — Gabrielle Zevin Growing pains Copy Share Image
“In Amelia’s experience, most people’s problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance. Amelia” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Living, it seemed to her, was the acquiring of bad habits. Dying, the process of rescinding them.” — Gabrielle Zevin Bad habit Copy Share Image
I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just… — Gabrielle Zevin Girl Copy Share Image
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“In the end, we are collected works. He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect.… — Gabrielle Zevin Books Copy Share Image
“I stopped 'not' looking at her breasts for a moment in order to look in her eyes. I saw amusement and understanding… — Gabrielle Zevin Learning Copy Share Image
“But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who… — Gabrielle Zevin Authors Copy Share Image
It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than… — Gabrielle Zevin Book Copy Share Image
“The top one in the pile is a young-adult fantasy novel in which the main character is dead. Ugh, A.J. thinks. Two… — Gabrielle Zevin Books Copy Share Image
“I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I want this job.” “Many people do, my girl.” “How do I get it?” Maya asks. “Reading, as aforementioned.” Maya nods. “I… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'll even become a nun and swear off boys forever." Scarlet turned to study me. "No. Your face wouldn't be good… — Gabrielle Zevin Habits Copy Share Image
“...the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations,… — Gabrielle Zevin Desire Copy Share Image
“Still . . . my mom may have been trying to get me not to worry. I am “neurotic.” “Neurotic” means “I… — Gabrielle Zevin Neurotic Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to die,” A.J. says after a bit. “I just find it difficult to be here all the time. Do… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I’m meant to love you, no matter how you act, no matter what you do? I couldn’t respect myself if I felt… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore. — Gabrielle Zevin Dream Copy Share Image
“They didn’t put a scarlet letter on her chest, but they didn’t need to. That’s what the Internet is for.” — Gabrielle Zevin Internet Copy Share Image
And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it… — Gabrielle Zevin Cry Copy Share Image
“When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?” — Gabrielle Zevin Architecture Copy Share Image
“The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like… — Gabrielle Zevin Endurance Copy Share Image
“In Amelia’s experience, most people’s problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.” — Gabrielle Zevin Chance Copy Share Image
Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.” — Gabrielle Zevin Phones Copy Share Image
“My grandmother was married for fifty-two years, until my grandfather died. She used to say that a bad marriage was one that… — Gabrielle Zevin Bad marriage 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 Death Copy Share Image
“I mean, I’m not not a feminist. I mean, I believe I’m a human before I’m a woman.” You say this because… — Gabrielle Zevin Feminism Copy Share Image
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Why are you so quiet?” he asks. Because, you want to say, I am a person with an interior world that you… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I know he's a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“What if there is only an equal ratio of happiness to unhappiness in the world at any given time?” — Gabrielle Zevin Happiness Copy Share Image
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