Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

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I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

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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.

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The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

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

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Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.

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You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

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He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

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I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

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Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.

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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.

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

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Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

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What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

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

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Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

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Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

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Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.

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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.

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I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.

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You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you

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A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

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And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

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I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.

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There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.

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Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing a smiling rack of gingerbread men in an oven. Baking gingerbread men, or any cooking for that matter, is probably close to suicide for a snowman, Liz thinks. Why would a snowman voluntarily engage in an activity that would in all likelihood melt him? Can snowmen even eat? Liz glares at the box.

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You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

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A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

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Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

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The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, "Who are you, my little one?" And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.

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If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

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