"I let myself feel good and sorry for……" — Gabrielle Zevin
"I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity."
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126 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin has 126 quotes on this site.
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You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite…
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We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The…
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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls…
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works
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The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and…
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A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.
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"I accept your condemnation," I said.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when…
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I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful…
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present.…
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You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you
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