Life Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

“Living, it seemed to her, was the acquiring of bad habits. Dying, the process of rescinding them.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“How long does a dream have to last before it’s just life?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“There's a difference between being alive and living.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“I thought of summer as the living time; the rest of the year was the backward time, the writing time.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“if you didn’t let some things go, you’d spend your whole life fighting.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is…

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

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There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to…

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“Still, Amelia had not allowed herself to be certain until dessert, when she’d asked him about the book that had had the…

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“Life is messy,” Dr. Lau was fond of saying. “Deal with it. If you’re judging it, you’re not really seeing it.”

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In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone…

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“when she’d asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he’d replied Principles of Accounting,…

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“If your last words are somehow meant to encapsulate your entire existence, Liz finds um strangely appropriate. Um means nothing. Um is…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“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

As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is…

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“We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are…

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“Isn't that about an orphan?" I asked. I hated those kinds of books. "You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is…

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“I worry for you. If you love everyone, you’ll end up having hurt feelings most of the time. I suppose, relative to…

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“It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us,” the passage goes, “but it is only because we are…

— Gabrielle Zevin

The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read…

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“On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the…

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“You spend your whole life trying to get out of holes. The hole you’re born into because of who your parents are.…

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“When you think of your mother, the word that occurs to you is too. She hugs you too hard, kisses you too…

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“There will be other lives. There will be other lives for nervous boys with sweaty palms, for bittersweet fumblings in the backseats…

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“You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially…

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“My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We”

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“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”

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“Maybe you survive cancer, maybe you survive the Holocaust, but life’ll get you every time.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“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

But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“And what is love, in the end?" Alabaster said. "Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“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

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa.…

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“My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“You can either be a bystander who lives his life in reaction to the decisions that others make, or you can be…

— Gabrielle Zevin