A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself. No, the real difficulty… — Gabrielle Zevin Alone Copy Share Image
In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone… — Gabrielle Zevin Death Copy Share Image
“They were an indistinct blur of pastel and white uniforms, like chalk doodles on a sidewalk in the rain.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“when she’d asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he’d replied Principles of Accounting,… — Gabrielle Zevin Book 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 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
“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
“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
Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the… — Gabrielle Zevin 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
“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 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 Copy Share Image
Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the… — Gabrielle Zevin Crossing the street 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
The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths… — Gabrielle Zevin Bad habit Copy Share Image
You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later. — Gabrielle Zevin Children Copy Share Image
Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as… — Gabrielle Zevin 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
“Embeth looked at the return address. It was from her most faithful friend, Shipment Fulfillment Center.” — Gabrielle Zevin Fulfillment Copy Share Image
It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you… — Gabrielle Zevin 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
“Last year, that Fischer idiot threw a black-and-white cookie at me, and I started to wonder if every principal exited this school… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I told him I didn't want to have sex until I got married. Without missing a beat, he nodded and said, "So… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to… — Gabrielle Zevin Friend Copy Share Image
“A.J. feels for the engagement ring in his pocket. Is this the moment? No, too Jumbotron.” — Gabrielle Zevin Engagement Copy Share Image
“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
I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I stort sett allt som är dåligt här i livet är en följd av dålig tajming, medan allt som är bra är… — Gabrielle Zevin 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
“The kind of people who spend their lives as permanent guests on a futon are not the kind of people you want… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“...reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“And what is love, in the end?" Alabaster said. "Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
