Gabrielle Zevin

“I say, “I just don’t like you,”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Showing up is what counts.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“In the end, we are collected works.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

"I accept your condemnation," I said.

— Gabrielle Zevin

I met a travler from an ancient land.

— Gabrielle Zevin

It's a tragic fact to die in an accident

— Gabrielle Zevin

“We are where we are.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

I don't believe in writer's block.

— Gabrielle Zevin

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind,”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“He felt comfortable and broken-in like favourite jeans.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Besides, I did not require heroism--I had been the hero of my own life for some time.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“And then, because the world is relentless this way, it was spring.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“You know what they say. Cold hands. Warm heart," Yuji said. "Or is it the reverse?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

— Gabrielle Zevin

I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a “single sitting” was longer back in…

— Gabrielle Zevin

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“I like all weddings, but isn’t it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Rosie crosses her arm. “That’s one of those things you say to sound smart, right?” she says. “But, really, you’re trying to…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“You try not to consider what it means that you are watching romantic comedies for occupational advice.”

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

“On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this…

— Gabrielle Zevin

The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her…

— Gabrielle Zevin

It was a nice day, and I don't mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like…

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“Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Why'd you give him all that stuff after he tried to rob me?" "Because he was less fortunate than us, Natty. And…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“How you holding up, old man?” Daniel calls A.J. “old man” despite the fact that Daniel is five years older than A.J.…

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“She hasn't cried once. SHe doesn't understand that Margaret is dead. At that age, they can't fully understand the concept of death.…

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“Not that this new husband is anything special—his name is Tony and he used to be in the auto glass business in…

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“How angry he had been at Sadie! How much righteous passion he had devoted to holding this grudge! He had thought himself…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Liz, I like you very much," he says. "Oh," she says, "I like you very much, too!" Owen is not sure if…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“I like all weddings, but isn’t it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?” Lambiase’s mother would like to see…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“...love, he thinks. What a bother. It's completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive…

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“I don’t even know if we have a broom closet, Mrs. Levin,” said Tasha. “Tasha, honestly! In this world, to be overly…

— Gabrielle Zevin