Top 500 Gabrielle Zevin Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “It’s just an absence seizure. I used to have them a lot as a kid. I rarely have them as an adult except when I’m unusually stressed.” “You should see a doctor.”

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452. “On the day she found Daedalus blowing the glass heart, she had suspected Sam, but she had also allowed herself not to know. She wanted to play more than she wanted to know. Sadie told Sam he had tricked her, but the truth was, she had tricked herself. It was embarrassing how much that silly, exquisite world had meant to her. A year and a half later, she.”

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453. “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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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. “On the third day, he brought a library copy of the novel Galatea 2.2, which he had recently enjoyed.”

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456. “When you have children, you’ll never be able to worry about a friend as much again,” Dov said. “I’m tired,” Sadie said. “I should go.” Sadie hung up the phone. She pulled Sam’s blanket over her head, and then she went to sleep.”

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457. “The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.”

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458. “Like Sam, I once lived in a house up a hill from the Happy Foot Sad Foot sign. The Happy Foot Sad Foot sign was taken down in 2019, but I am told you can still find its remains in a gift shop somewhere in Silver Lake.”

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459. “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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460. “You try again. You fail better.”

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461. “There is no purity in art. The process of how you arrive at something doesn’t matter at all.”

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462. “If their traumas are the most interesting things about them, how do they get over any of it?”

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463. “She almost seemed to be an extension of him, and he, of her.”

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464. “This is the most violent poetry game I’ve ever played,′ Marx said.”

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465. “Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.”

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466. “The coyotes felt capable, canny, and strangely anthropomorphized, as if they had been endowed with human features by a team of animators. Their hair seemed artfully disheveled, the haircut of a hot, young actor playing a drug addict in an independent film. The coyotes felt more human than most of the humans Sam encountered, more human than Sam himself felt back then.”

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467. “Sam was leaning on his good foot, in the increasingly lopsided way he had to stand, and Sadie felt a swelling of love and of worry for him – what was the difference in the end? It was never worth worrying about someone you didn’t love. And it wasn’t love if you didn’t worry.”

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468. “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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469. “I’ve been blue, lately,” Sam admitted. “And I wondered, how do you get over that sort of thing?” “Work helps,” Sadie said. “Games help. But sometimes, when I’m really low, I keep a particular image in my mind.” “What is it?” “I imagine people playing. Sometimes, it’s one of our games, but sometimes, it’s any game. The thing I find profoundly hopeful when I’m feeling despair is to imagine people playing, to believe that no matter how bad the world gets, there will always be players.”

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470. “There is no Allison Springs, Maine, but I can attest to the reality of Boca Raton, Florida: I grew up there.”

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471. “The key to being a good thief, Sam always felt, was utter brazenness.”

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472. “To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt.”

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473. “What a world. People once made glass sculptures of decay, and they put these sculptures in museums. How strange and beautiful human beings are. And how fragile.”

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474. “Yo odio los libros de coleccionista. Toda esa gente que se vuelve loca por armazones de papel. Lo importante son las ideas, amigo. Las palabras.”

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

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476. “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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477. “But because he had been mostly raised in Asia, he had been completely sheltered from the kind of racism that Asians experienced in America.”

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478. “What’s better than work?” He paused. “What’s worse than work?”

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479. “Visto che siamo al mondo, stiamo tutti morendo.”

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480. “He would know her handwriting anywhere.”

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481. “A name is destiny, if you think it is.”

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482. “No, this is a great game. That’s Cobainus. The eleven stars of Cobainus form a fuzzy grandma sweater,” Marx said.”

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483. “Sadie had invented a game where if Naomi called bedtime before Sadie did for seven nights in a row, Naomi received a prize. Yes, it was manipulative and basically bribery, but it was also effective.”

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

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485. “As he rounded Kennedy Street, he began to chant to himself a poem that he had heard once, he wasn’t sure where. “That love is all there is; is all we know of love. It is enough; the freight should be proportioned to the groove.”

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486. “She liked going to bed early and waking up early. She liked working. She liked that she was good at her work, and she felt proud of the fact that she was well paid for it. She felt pleasure in orderly things – a perfectly efficient section of code, a closet where every item was in its place. She liked solitude and the thoughts of her own interesting and creative mind. She liked to be comfortable.”

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487. “She knew that the presence of the timesheet made it seem as if she had an ulterior motive, though the truth was obvious to her: Sadie Green liked being praised, and Sam Masur was the best friend she had ever had.”

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488. “I forget how young you are. You’re still at the age where you mistake your friends and your colleagues for family.”

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489. “As a wedding gift to Ms. Marks, Dr. Daedalus created a topiary hedge maze in the garden by her house. When asked why she had decided to make such a gift, the doctor replied cryptically, “To make a game is to imagine the person playing it.”

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490. “True Blood is Amelia’s favorite television show. It.”

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491. “If Sadie and Sam had been lovers, Sadie was certain she would have been seen as Sam’s helpmate, and not as an artist in her own right. Many people saw her that way already.”

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492. “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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493. “The most important thing is finding someone you wish to play with.”

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494. “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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495. “Freda would grab his hand with her soft, old hand, and pat it gently, and say, “Life is long” or.”

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496. “Hey, pretty girl. How you doing?” “Adopted,” she says.”

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497. “Yes, she loved him, but she also liked him. She liked herself when she was with him.”

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498. “There were smart people, yes. There were people with whom you might have a decent conversation for twenty minutes. But to find someone who you wanted to talk to for 609 hours – that was rare. Even Marx – Marx was devoted, creative, and bright, but he was not Sadie.”

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499. “As Sam often said to Sadie, “Why make anything if you don’t believe it could be great?”

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500. “Alice would only have to be in the hospital for two nights this time, and it was only out of, according to her mother, “an abundance of caution.” It reminded her of a murder of crows, a flock of seagulls, a pack of wolves. She imagined that “caution” was a creature of some kind – maybe, a cross between a Saint Bernard and an elephant. A large, intelligent, friendly animal that could be counted on to defend the Green sisters from threats, existential and otherwise.”

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