"Life used to move much more quickly when……" — Gabrielle Zevin

"Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up."

— Gabrielle Zevin

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126 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin has 126 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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More Abbreviate Quotes

This quote is filed under Abbreviate Quotes, one of 7 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission,… — Richard Dawkins
The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce… — Callan McAuliffe
The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence — Saul Williams
What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation. — Edward Tufte
I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. — James Boswell
His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further. — Jorge Luis Borges

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