Gabrielle Zevin Short Quotes

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

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It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

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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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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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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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It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.

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