"On, there are so many lives. How we……" — Gabrielle Zevin
"On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess."
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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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