Gabrielle Zevin Quotes - Page 2

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.

My brain said no. But my heart!

Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

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

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

"I accept your condemnation," I said.

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

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

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

I don't believe in writer's block.

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.

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

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

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

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?

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

In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.

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

I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it." ~Will Landsman

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