“Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?" She said, "I refused to be shamed." "How… — Gabrielle Zevin Fortitude 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 Almost there Copy Share Image
“I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“A.J. feels for the engagement ring in his pocket. Is this the moment? No, too Jumbotron.” — Gabrielle Zevin Engagement ring Copy Share Image
“E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a “single sitting” was longer back in… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy.” — Gabrielle Zevin Death Copy Share Image
“Maybe you survive cancer, maybe you survive the Holocaust, but life’ll get you every time.” — Gabrielle Zevin Life Copy Share Image
“Does it count for anything that I just told you I love you?" Gable asked. I considered this briefly before deciding that… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between being alive and living.” — Gabrielle Zevin Inspiration Copy Share Image
“Good morning, magazines! Good morning, bookmarks! Good morning, books! Good morning, store!” — Gabrielle Zevin Good morning Copy Share Image
“Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.” — Gabrielle Zevin A-j Copy Share Image
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 Arms Copy Share Image
“He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it’s love. Fucking… — Gabrielle Zevin Happiness Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, wounds are like water boiled--they heal best left unwatched.” — 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 Bad thing Copy Share Image
“He had an appreciation for things other people had forgotten.” — Gabrielle Zevin Gratitude Copy Share Image
You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you — Gabrielle Zevin Believe Copy Share Image
“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts,… — Gabrielle Zevin Books Copy Share Image
Daddy once said, "If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul. — Gabrielle Zevin Annie Copy Share Image
People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And… — Gabrielle Zevin Fall 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
