Top 500 Gabrielle Zevin Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Macbeth has just heard the news that his wife had died, and he is giving the most famous soliloquy from the play, the “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” speech.”

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452. “There is a pleasure to the joining of property as well, otherwise why would we all keep doing it? ‘Pleasure’ might be too strong a word. If not a pleasure, let us say an interest. It develops the plot.”

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453. “Sam considered his French fries. “Are there other worlds?”

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454. “He’s got one thick book. He’s in the middle of Infinite Jest. You ever heard of it?”

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455. “Memory, you realized long ago, is a game that a healthy-brained person can play all the time, and the game of memory is won or lost on one criterion: Do you leave the formation of memories to happenstance, or do you decide to remember?”

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456. “And to see her almost made him want to cry. It was as if she were a mathematical proof that had eluded him for many years, but all at once, with fresh, well-rested eyes, the proof had a completely obvious solution. There’s Sadie, he thought. Yes.”

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457. “If it doesn’t work, all we’ve lost is a lot of time and money.” Sam laughed. “Let’s do this,” he said.”

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458. “Alabaster eyed Emily’s still growing stomach. “How many months are you along now?” “Perhaps eleven. I’m not sure. Soon, I shall be able to roll from Upper Foglands to town.” “I feel you have lived here longer than eleven months, and you were with child when you arrived. Is it possible your unborn child is waiting for you to be married?” “No, I could never have a child so conventional,” Emily said.”

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459. “She had, he thought, one of the world’s great laughs. The kind of laugh where a person didn’t feel that he was being laughed at. The kind of laugh that was an invitation: I cordially invite you to join in this matter that I find amusing.”

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460. “Die Liebe ist Konstante und Variable zugleich.”

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461. “Sometimes I feel like the wedding is a Trojan horse. The dream I peddle to distract from the reality of a marriage. They choose these things to distinguish themselves from everyone else. They choose these things to make themselves feel less ordinary. But is there anything more ordinary than choosing to get married?”

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462. “You try again. You fail better.”

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463. “The lines mean that one doesn’t have to be a god or a king for your life to have meaning.”

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464. “Lambiase and the first Ms. Fikry speak variations on the phrase, “A town isn’t a town without a bookstore.” Surely, they both must have read American Gods by Neil Gaiman.”

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465. “It was as if she were a mathematical proof that had eluded him for many years, but all at once, with fresh, well-rested eyes, the proof had a completely obvious solution.”

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466. “It would be so easy, Ismay thinks. You walk out. You swim for a while. You swim too far. You don’t try to swim back. Your lungs fill up. It hurts for a bit, but then it’s over. Nothing ever hurts again, and your conscience is clear. You don’t leave a mess. Maybe your body washes up some day. Maybe it doesn’t.”

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467. “I didn’t call you because I had met someone better, and when that didn’t work out, I decided to give you a second chance. So don’t be thinking you’re superior. You’ve got a decent smile, I’ll give you that, but your teeth are too big and so is your ass and you’re not twenty-five anymore even if you drink like you are. You shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth.”

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468. “No somos las cosas que acumulamos, adquirimos, leemos. Durante el tiempo que nos es dado vivir, somos solo amor. Las cosas que hemos amado. Las personas que hemos amado. Eso, es lo que realmente perdura.”

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469. “Sadie,” he said. “Do you know why I want to make a game?” “Of course. Because you foolishly think it will make you rich and famous.” “No. It’s very simple. I want to make something that will make people happy.”

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470. “There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn’t chosen.”

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471. “I am so tired of your crap. Do you honestly think you suffer more than everyone else? Do you think you suffer more than I do? Do you think you’re the first person to ever have a baby? Or lose someone? Do you think you’re some goddamned pioneer when it comes to grief?”

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472. “What’s hanafuda?” Sam asked. “Plastic cards. Quite small and thick, with flowers and scenes of nature.”

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473. “But then he reminded himself: They are not only my friends. They are my colleagues. He had turned them into his colleagues, and in a strange way, that was comforting to Sam. Ichigo bonded them to him for life.”

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474. “You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you and it’s a perfect time for you to sit down in front of your computer and make another game. You try again. You fail better.”

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475. “When your mother is worrying about something, it means that you won’t have to.”

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476. “The Fall of the House of Usher’ is a fair primer on what not to do with children.”

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477. “Or, I’m sorry, is Ichigo a him?” “Sam and Sadie say them.” “Cool. When the parents can’t recognize them. That moment is straight out of The Odyssey.”

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478. “I think they’re in love.” Sam sniffed, as if the idea of it, love, was ridiculous. “You disapprove, I take it?” “Marx is always in love. He’s an emotional harlot. What does love even mean when you can find it with so many people and things?” “Marx is great,” Sadie said. “I think he’s lucky.”

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479. “A little girl hitting a violent predator with a log is hand-to-hand combat and that’s honest. A man, who is represented by a hand, shooting a series of unknown henchmen is dishonest.”

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480. “We can never know what else might have happened had other competitors been there. The Russian girls could have won, or they could have gotten jet-lagged and choked.” Anna shrugged. “And this is the truth of any game – it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It’s the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.”

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481. “The peaches are impossibly large and almost fluffy. They aren’t engineered to survive the indignities of shipping, of grocery store shelves. Zoe samples one, and she says it’s like eating a flower. And then she hands it to you, and you take a bite, and you say it’s like drinking a peach. And then you hand the peach to Sam, who bites down and says, it’s like a song about a peach more than it’s like a peach.”

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482. “We had so much freedom – creatively, technically. No one was watching us, and we weren’t even watching ourselves. What we had was our impossibly high standards, and your completely theoretical conviction that we could make a great game.”

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483. “Samson, you are a lucky boy,′ Don Hyun said to Sam in a perfectly clear voice. ‘You have had tragedy, yes, but you have had many good friends as well.”

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484. “He is folding cranes so that your mother can string them. This is marriage.”

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485. “Sometimes, though, I get tired of learning lessons.”

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486. “This novel has humor, romance, a touch of suspense, but most of all love – love of books and bookish people and, really, all of humanity in its imperfect glory.” – EOWYN IVEY, author of The Snow Child.”

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487. “We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works.”

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488. “The awareness gave him pause: perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.”

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489. “She scanned the crowd and when she spotted Sam, the smile spread over her face like a time-lapse video he had once seen in a high school physics class of a rose in bloom.”

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490. “Marx’s favorite adjective was “interesting.”

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491. “I worry for you. If you love everyone, you’ll end up having hurt feelings most of the time.”

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492. “Why make anything if you don’t believe it could be great?”

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493. “Sam knew that Sadie knew that he loved her. Sadie knew that Sam loved her in the same way she knew that Sam had not seen the Magic Eye.”

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494. “When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I.”

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495. “The loss of his mind has turned out to be a curiously pain-free process. He feels that it ought to hurt more.”

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496. “Computers are great for experimentation, but they’re bad for deep thinking.”

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497. “Never use someone else’s engine, if you can help it,” Dov warned. “You cede too much power to them.”

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498. “A nostalgia for something that had never been? An envy at their intimacy? She wondered what it would have been like if Sam had been her lover.”

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499. “It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us,” the passage goes, “but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.”

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500. “Lights, bright enough to dilate her eyes. Horns, flaccid and come too late. Metal crumpling like tissue. The body was not in pain but only because the body was gone, elsewhere. Yes, Daniel thinks just after impact but before death, like that. The passage hadn’t been as bad as he had thought.”

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