“For the record, everything new is not worse than everything old.” — Gabrielle Zevin A-j Copy Share Image
I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork. — Gabrielle Zevin Afraid Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.” — Gabrielle Zevin Books Copy Share Image
“What if there is only an equal ratio of happiness to unhappiness in the world at any given time?” — Gabrielle Zevin Happiness Copy Share Image
“I also think people didn’t truly understand the Internet back then, if indeed they can be said to understand it now.” — Gabrielle Zevin Internet Copy Share Image
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book. — Gabrielle Zevin Anybody Copy Share Image
“I had thought the way I felt about Will was just a room, but it had turned out to be a mansion.… — Gabrielle Zevin Mansion 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
If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz… — Gabrielle Zevin Forgive 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
“Love you,” Maya says. “Yes, she keeps saying that,” A.J. says. “I warned her about giving love that hasn’t yet been earned,… — Gabrielle Zevin Giving love Copy Share Image
For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it.… — Gabrielle Zevin Humming Copy Share Image
“I did wear those shoes to my wedding, and I ended up twisting my ankle on the way out of the synagogue.… — Gabrielle Zevin Marriage Copy Share Image
“Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who… — Gabrielle Zevin Book Copy Share Image
“Beauties” by Anton Chekhov, “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J. D. Salinger, “Brownies” or “Drinking… — Gabrielle Zevin Beauties Copy Share Image
“But in the end, it had been a long day, and it was easier to stare at her phone for the next… — Gabrielle Zevin Long day Copy Share Image
“Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look… — Gabrielle Zevin Book Copy Share Image
“The other interns have left, and your eyes are beginning to spill over. The hell with it, you think. No one’s here.… — Gabrielle Zevin Google maps Copy Share Image
Speak up,' says Myrna who has a fuzzy white caterpillar of a moustache. 'My hearing's not so good.' 'I WAS SHOT IN… — Gabrielle Zevin Apologizing Copy Share Image
“Maya knows that her mother left her in Island Books. But maybe that’s what happens to all children at a certain age.… — Gabrielle Zevin Children Copy Share Image
“Every time I run into you for the rest of our lives, I'll ask you to make a game with me. There's… — Gabrielle Zevin Definition of insanity Copy Share Image
“Owen doesn't watch when they place Liz in the River, next to all the other babies who would be born that day.… — Gabrielle Zevin Owen Deciding Copy Share Image
Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there.… — Gabrielle Zevin Closeness Copy Share Image
“YOU CAN KIND of see them if you get on your tippy toes and look over the fence,” A.J. says. “There, in… — Gabrielle Zevin Closed Copy Share Image
Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen… — Gabrielle Zevin Baking Copy Share Image
“Why are you here?" I asked him. "That's an awfully big question, Anya." "No, I meant here outside this office. What did… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Babies move more than books and aren’t as conveniently shaped.” — Gabrielle Zevin Books Copy Share Image
“I felt guilty, but lighter. I had turned my problem into someone else’s.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts. — Gabrielle Zevin Deep thought Copy Share Image
I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets. — Gabrielle Zevin Keeper Copy Share Image
He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world. — Gabrielle Zevin Love Copy Share Image
“The real gift of the holiday season, A.J. thinks, is that it ends.” — Gabrielle Zevin Christmas Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road.” — Gabrielle Zevin Death Copy Share Image
“I know what words do, he thinks. They let us feel less. “No,” — Gabrielle Zevin Language Copy Share Image
“In this world, to be overly literal is a profound weakness.” — Gabrielle Zevin Annoying Copy Share Image
