“You'd probably marry me just to annoy your father." He grinned. "Well, that would certainly be a bonus." "Why don't you like… — Gabrielle Zevin Parenting Copy Share Image
“So I will wait, because I would rather wait for you than waste my time with someone who isn't you. And I… — Gabrielle Zevin Baseball 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… — Gabrielle Zevin Breathe Copy Share Image
“She could remember the sensation of flying through the air, which seemed to last an eternity. She could remember feeling reckless, happy,… — Gabrielle Zevin Heart Copy Share Image
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started… — Gabrielle Zevin Computer Copy Share Image
“I worry for you. If you love everyone, you’ll end up having hurt feelings most of the time. I suppose, relative to… — Gabrielle Zevin Feelings Copy Share Image
What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought… — Gabrielle Zevin Book Copy Share Image
“If you’re honest with yourself, one of the reasons you moved into an off-campus apartment and didn’t get any roommates is because… — Gabrielle Zevin Honest with yourself Copy Share Image
It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances… — Gabrielle Zevin Apologize Copy Share Image
“In my humble opinion, love is when a person believes that he, she or it can't live without some other he, she… — Gabrielle Zevin Believes 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 Books Copy Share Image
“I had never been good with words. On the path from my heart to my brain to my mouth, phrases became twisted… — Gabrielle Zevin Language Copy Share Image
Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the… — Gabrielle Zevin Behinds Copy Share Image
“A good man is hard to find,” she says finally. “Do you mean the O’Connor story? The one on your desk. It’s… — Gabrielle Zevin Good man Copy Share Image
“When she told me it was her favorite, it suggested to me strange and wonderful things about her character that I had… — Gabrielle Zevin Books Copy Share Image
“We walk to the parking lot, and he says, "Did something happen back there? Did I say something wrong? I thought it… — Gabrielle Zevin Parking lot Copy Share Image
“You made quite an impression on the old man, by the way." "You mean Uncle Yuri?" "He said he'd marry you. If… — Gabrielle Zevin Old man Copy Share Image
“Though I hadn't had a stroke like Uncle Yuri, it was still difficult for me to express what was in my heart.… — Gabrielle Zevin Freedom Copy Share Image
“Did you have a good time with Win?" Natty asked. "I'll tell you about it tomorrow." I lowered my voice. "He's still… — Gabrielle Zevin Good time Copy Share Image
I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the… — Gabrielle Zevin Blow Copy Share Image
“The rub of the Choose Your Own Adventure stories is that if you don’t make a few bad choices, the story will… — Gabrielle Zevin Adventure 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 Bad thing Copy Share Image
“Every generation spins the wheel,Anya, and where it lands defines 'the good'. Funny thing is they never know that they're spining it,… — Gabrielle Zevin Generation Spins Copy Share Image
“All I can say is . . . All I can say is we’ll figure it out, I swear. When I read… — Gabrielle Zevin Books Copy Share Image
Oh, all stories are the same, aren't they? Men and women fall in love or out of love. People are born; people… — Gabrielle Zevin Als Copy Share Image
“Why are the cute ones always such sociopaths?" "Win doesn't seem like so much of a sociopath," I replied without thinking. "Oh,… — Gabrielle Zevin First step 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 Bad thing Copy Share Image
“It had not been a lonely childhood, though many of her intimates had been somewhat less than real.” — Gabrielle Zevin Childhood 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 Girl Copy Share Image
“The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time. How light.” — Gabrielle Zevin Feel Copy Share Image
I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork. — Gabrielle Zevin Afraid Copy Share Image
“For the record, everything new is not worse than everything old.” — Gabrielle Zevin A-j Copy Share Image
Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine? — Gabrielle Zevin Canine Copy Share Image
“I know what words do, he thinks. They let us feel less. “No,” — Gabrielle Zevin Language Copy Share Image
“I felt guilty, but lighter. I had turned my problem into someone else’s.” — Gabrielle Zevin 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 Annoying Copy Share Image
On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have… — Gabrielle Zevin Elsewhere 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
“..banning anything leads to organized crime. People will always find a way to get what they want, and there will always be… — Gabrielle Zevin Banning Copy Share Image
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written… — Gabrielle Zevin Dull Copy Share Image