“But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both.” — Gabrielle Zevin Heartbreak Copy Share Image
“Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.” — Gabrielle Zevin Books Copy Share Image
“An “online presence” is “all the true things and all the lies about a person on the Internet.” — Gabrielle Zevin Internet Copy Share Image
They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. — Gabrielle Zevin Born Copy Share Image
“My dad always says to listen for the pauses when you want to know if someone’s hiding something.” — Gabrielle Zevin Communication Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow," she said, "we try again. We fail again. We do better.” — Gabrielle Zevin Fail Copy Share Image
My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me. — Gabrielle Zevin Books Copy Share Image
“My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We” — Gabrielle Zevin Books Copy Share Image
“she doesn’t want to become the kind of person who thinks that good news can only come from calls one was already… — Gabrielle Zevin Good news Copy Share Image
I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always… — Gabrielle Zevin Always Copy Share Image
Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time… — Gabrielle Zevin Blurb Copy Share Image
The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another… — Gabrielle Zevin Done Copy Share Image
if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real… — Gabrielle Zevin Agree Copy Share Image
“Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it.… — Gabrielle Zevin I love you Copy Share Image
I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I… — Gabrielle Zevin Amazingly 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 Begging Copy Share Image
“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 Marriage Copy Share Image
“Do you like Moby Dick ?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers… — Gabrielle Zevin Moby-dick Copy Share Image
Liz, I like you very much," he says. "Oh," she says, "I like you very much, too!" Owen is not sure if… — Gabrielle Zevin Apartment Copy Share Image
I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we… — Gabrielle Zevin Adults Copy Share Image
“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 Authors 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 Fear 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 Life 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
“They were an indistinct blur of pastel and white uniforms, like chalk doodles on a sidewalk in the rain.” — Gabrielle Zevin Uniforms Copy Share Image
“Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?” — Gabrielle Zevin Book Copy Share Image
“To return to the city of one's birth always felt like retreat.” — Gabrielle Zevin Birth Copy Share Image
“Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.” — Gabrielle Zevin Chance Copy Share Image
Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though. — Gabrielle Zevin Chocolate Copy Share Image
Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered. — Gabrielle Zevin Daddy Copy Share Image
“Embeth looked at the return address. It was from her most faithful friend, Shipment Fulfillment Center.” — Gabrielle Zevin Fulfillment Copy Share Image
“The problem with meeting new people is not that you might not like them, but that you will like them too much.” — Gabrielle Zevin Meeting new people Copy Share Image
“But you, you can never do anything hard. And I let you be that way.” — Gabrielle Zevin Hard Copy Share Image
“You love being Ruby’s mother, but loving Ruby does not stop you from wanting things for yourself.” — Gabrielle Zevin Mother 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 Speak 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 Life Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to die,” A.J. says after a bit. “I just find it difficult to be here all the time. Do… — Gabrielle Zevin Difficult Copy Share Image
“The top one in the pile is a young-adult fantasy novel in which the main character is dead. Ugh, A.J. thinks. Two… — Gabrielle Zevin Books Copy Share Image
It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than… — Gabrielle Zevin Book Copy Share Image
And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it… — Gabrielle Zevin Cry Copy Share Image
