Gabrielle Zevin - People Quotes

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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 things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Gabrielle Zevin

Ask two people to tell you anything, you'll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don't know something for yourself, you just can't be sure.

Gabrielle Zevin

Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know

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

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.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Gabrielle Zevin