"There's a strange sort of quiet when you're……" — Gabrielle Zevin
"There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker."
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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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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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The words you can't find, you borrow.
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More Dying Quotes
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a…
— Brigitte Bardot
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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
— Richard Barnfield
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I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
— Richard Baxter
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