Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

But then again, maybe 'I will' is nicer. It has the future in it. 'I do' just has the present.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

I know he's a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person, you have to forgive him sometimes.

Every book is a world.

Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

You don't choose a book the book chooses you

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

Hi there, " squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind...

Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.

Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?"She said, "I refused to be shamed.""How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming, " she said.

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.

We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.

What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?

No one will ever love me that much again.

On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.

I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn’t? When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?

Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.

Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren't they much more common?

There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.