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When dad says he's going to church, he actually means he's going to a library or a bookstore. - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. — Gabrielle Zevin

The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

Pregnant, she looked like a pretty Gollum. — Gabrielle Zevin

My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry. — Gabrielle Zevin

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me ... I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time.
How light. — Gabrielle Zevin

A place ain't a place without a bookstore, — Gabrielle Zevin

I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person. — Gabrielle Zevin

The more I believe that this is what the point of it all is. To connect, my dear little nerd. Only connect. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

Everything worth loving in this world is difficult. — Gabrielle Zevin

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

Oh, you don't want to hear all my sad stories. I can't even bear to tell them anymore. Screw the past, right? — Gabrielle Zevin

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby. — Gabrielle Zevin

It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails; I was heads. — Gabrielle Zevin

Good morning, magazines! Good morning, bookmarks! Good morning, books! — Gabrielle Zevin

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think? — Gabrielle Zevin

A.J. decides to call Lambiase. He suggests frozen shrimp from Costco, which A.J. now recognizes as Lambiase's default party-throwing suggestion. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

His eyes were blazing and I swear I could smell the testosterone coming off him. — Gabrielle Zevin

A.J. has never changed a diaper in his life, though he is a modestly skilled gift wrapper. — Gabrielle Zevin

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me. — Gabrielle Zevin

No one, not even the rain has such soft hands. — Gabrielle Zevin

How long does a dream have to last before it's just life? — Gabrielle Zevin

I loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It's the ideas that matter, man. The words, — Gabrielle Zevin

The Catholic schoolgirl in me was scandalized by the thought; I told her we'd been thrown out of Catholic school so she should shut up. — Gabrielle Zevin

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

It's easier to be happy than to be sad. Being sad takes alot of work. It's exhausting — Gabrielle Zevin

Maya, we are what we love. We are that we love. — Gabrielle Zevin

They were an indistinct blur of pastel and white uniforms, like chalk doodles on a sidewalk in the rain — Gabrielle Zevin

Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it? — Gabrielle Zevin

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self. — Gabrielle Zevin

Daddy once said, If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul. — Gabrielle Zevin

I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quite a kind of song. — Gabrielle Zevin

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? — Gabrielle Zevin

You don't choose a book the book chooses you — Gabrielle Zevin

She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy. She was poor and black, which means people say they saw it coming. — Gabrielle Zevin

Fuck you. I like you. I'm used to you. You are the one, you asshole. I can't meet someone new. — Gabrielle Zevin

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books? — Gabrielle Zevin

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

The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love. — Gabrielle Zevin

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

Reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. — Gabrielle Zevin

I met a travler from an ancient land. — Gabrielle Zevin

No one will ever love me that much again. — Gabrielle Zevin

As a form, the picture book has a similar elegance to the short story. — Gabrielle Zevin

And she always wants to read the same book. And it's, like, the crappiest board book. The Monster at the End of This Book? — Gabrielle Zevin

I've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room. — Gabrielle Zevin

He had referred to blurbs as the blood diamonds of publishing. — Gabrielle Zevin

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried. — Gabrielle Zevin

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do. — Gabrielle Zevin

I doubt that," I said. "I can argue with anything. — Gabrielle Zevin

Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story. — Gabrielle Zevin

The fish does not die with regrets because the fish cannot love. I die with regrets, and yet I am glad I am not a fish. — Gabrielle Zevin

Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. — Gabrielle Zevin

She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die. — Gabrielle Zevin

Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual. — Gabrielle Zevin

Death is a state of mind
many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

In the end, we are collected works. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't. — Gabrielle Zevin

I love having sex with you," she says. "If you're a vegetable when this is done, can I still have sex with you? — Gabrielle Zevin

In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you. — Gabrielle Zevin

To begin, it is narrated by Death! — Gabrielle Zevin

He had an appreciation for things other people had forgotten — Gabrielle Zevin

He doesn't believe in "the one." There are zillions of people in the world; no one is that special. — Gabrielle Zevin

Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine? — Gabrielle Zevin

No Man Is An Island; Every Book Is A World. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

I don't want to die," A.J. says after a bit. "I just find it difficult to be here all the time. — Gabrielle Zevin

The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything. — Gabrielle Zevin

It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts. — Gabrielle Zevin

Every book is a world. — Gabrielle Zevin

The problem with meeting new people is not that you might not like them, but that you will like them too much. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

Dancing was a kind of surrender to feeling, to sound, to the present -Anya — Gabrielle Zevin

Amelia the bright-sider believes it is better to be alone than to be with someone who doesn't share your sensibilities and interests. — Gabrielle Zevin

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it. — Gabrielle Zevin

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin

Lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them. — Gabrielle Zevin

No substance," A.J. mutters. "They leave you hungry. — Gabrielle Zevin

He smelled like smoke and laundered sheets left to dry in the sun — Gabrielle Zevin

It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless. — Gabrielle Zevin

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it. — Gabrielle Zevin

My dad always says to listen for the pauses when you want to know if someone's hiding something. — Gabrielle Zevin

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind ... — Gabrielle Zevin

I longed for Mum in the most primitive way — Gabrielle Zevin

What is the point of bad dates if not to have amusing anecdotes for your friends? — Gabrielle Zevin

Janine smiles. Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell. — Gabrielle Zevin

In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn — Gabrielle Zevin

And James Patterson (or whoever writes for James Patterson) - — Gabrielle Zevin

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

They should tell you when you're born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. — Gabrielle Zevin

Showing up is what counts. — Gabrielle Zevin

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then. — Gabrielle Zevin

She is no longer speaking. Clearly, some response is required — Gabrielle Zevin

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children. — Gabrielle Zevin