“Living, it seemed to her, was the acquiring of bad habits. Dying, the process of rescinding them.” — 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
“Maybe you survive cancer, maybe you survive the Holocaust, but life’ll get you every time.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“if you didn’t let some things go, you’d spend your whole life fighting.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We” — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Still, Amelia had not allowed herself to be certain until dessert, when she’d asked him about the book that had had the… — 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
In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else. — Gabrielle Zevin 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
“My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“You can either be a bystander who lives his life in reaction to the decisions that others make, or you can be… — 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 Copy Share Image
As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“If your last words are somehow meant to encapsulate your entire existence, Liz finds um strangely appropriate. Um means nothing. Um is… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“In truth, she hadn't put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Infinite Jest is a masterpiece,” Harvey had said. “Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you… — 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
“It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us,” the passage goes, “but it is only because we are… — 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
“When you think of your mother, the word that occurs to you is too. She hugs you too hard, kisses you too… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“You spend your whole life trying to get out of holes. The hole you’re born into because of who your parents are.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially… — 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 Copy Share Image
A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length. — Gabrielle Zevin 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 Copy Share Image
But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I've been a police officer for twenty years now and I'll tell you, pretty much every bad thing is life is a… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“And what is love, in the end?" Alabaster said. "Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“and I’ll tell you, pretty much every bad thing in life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“when she’d asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he’d replied Principles of Accounting,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Isn't that about an orphan?" I asked. I hated those kinds of books. "You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is… — Gabrielle Zevin 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 Copy Share Image
“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“He didn't break my heart. No one can break your heart except you.” — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 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
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 Image
“Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“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 Image
