Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
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Gabrielle Zevin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If Jenny were a book, she would be a paperback just out of the box - no dog ears, no waterlogging, no creases in her spine.
Maybe I'll even become a nun and swear off boys forever."
Scarlet turned to study me. "No. Your face wouldn't be good in a habit.
Scarlet turned to study me. "No. Your face wouldn't be good in a habit.
I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told myself.
Sorry, Maya, but it wasn't exactly a pleasure cruise for me either. The quicker you stop shitting yourself, the quicker we don't have to do this.
Life is messy," Dr. Lau was fond of saying. "Deal with it. If you're judging it, you're not really seeing it.
The kind of people who spend their lives as permanent guests on a futon are not the kind of people you want to know.
Take heart, Maya. As a bookseller, I assure you that prizewinning can be somewhat important for sales but rarely matters much in terms of quality.
Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.
If something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.
I thought of summer as the living time; the rest of the year was the backward time, the writing time
The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.
It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn't live without him. Apparently I could.
When small wounds are left untreated, they can fest and become far more serious injuries. -Mr. Kipling
I'm meant to love you, no matter how you act, no matter what you do? I couldn't respect myself if I felt that way.
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.'
Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?
Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?
In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.
Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.
Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.
It's difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything's changed.
E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a "single sitting" was longer back in his day. But I digress again.
There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.
I love having sex with you," she says. "If you're a vegetable when this is done, can I still have sex with you?
Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story.
But it's the only way I know to move forward. You make a list and then you go and do the things on it.
In the fifteen or so years he has known her, A.J. thinks Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.
I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please.
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?
Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know."
"I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
"I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
Oh, you don't want to hear all my sad stories. I can't even bear to tell them anymore. Screw the past, right?