Top 500 Gabrielle Zevin Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “His heart is too full, and no words to release it. I know what words do, he thinks. They let us feel less.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

102. “Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don’t they? In the middle of the night, we’re all such children.”

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103. “In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn.”

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104. “I chanced upon “The Luck of Roaring Camp” again a couple of years ago and I cried so much you’ll find that my Dover Thrift Edition is waterlogged. Methinks I have grown soft in my middle age. But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: 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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

105. “You couldn’t be old and still be wrong about as many things as she’d been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.”

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106. “But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: 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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

107. “People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

108. “The best part of this moment, he thought, is that everything is still possible.”

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109. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

110. “It’s a tragic fact to die in an accident.”

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111. “My grandmother was married for fifty-two years, until my grandfather died. She used to say that a bad marriage was one that hadn’t had enough time to get good again.”

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112. “It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

113. “I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

114. “There are no ghosts, but up here” – she gestured toward her head – “it’s a haunted house.”

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115. “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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116. “Most people’s problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.”

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117. “His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.”

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

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119. “This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.”

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120. “The theme of the dance was “Great Romances,” or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.”

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121. “My books can be divided into dog eras. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was begun in the era of Edie and Frank and completed in the era of Leia and Frank. Good dogs, all.”

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122. “But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.”

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123. “He felt comfortable and broken-in like favourite jeans.”

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124. “You love being Ruby’s mother, but loving Ruby does not stop you from wanting things for yourself.”

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125. “Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing a smiling rack of gingerbread men in an oven. Baking gingerbread men, or any cooking for that matter, is probably close to suicide for a snowman, Liz thinks. Why would a snowman voluntarily engage in an activity that would in all likelihood melt him? Can snowmen even eat? Liz glares at the box.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

126. “To be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.”

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127. “Promise me, we won’t ever do this again,” Sadie said. “Promise me, that no matter what happens, no matter what dumb thing we supposedly perpetrate on each other, we won’t ever go six years without talking to each other. Promise me you’ll always forgive me, and I promise I’ll always forgive you.” These, of course, are the kinds of vows young people feel comfortable making when they have no idea what life has in store for them.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

128. “It’s hard to believe. Where does the times go?′ Betty sighs. ‘I’ve always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.”

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129. “Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life.”

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130. “And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.”

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131. “Maya, we are what we love. We are that we love.”

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132. “Did you have a ship?” Maya asks. “Yes. It had books on it, and it really was more of a research vessel. We studied a lot.” “You’re ruining this story.” “It’s a fact, Maya. There are murdering kinds of pirates and researching kinds of pirates, and your daddy was the latter.”

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133. “The words of Anders Larsson came back to him: “To be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.”

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134. “It’s a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person’s grievances are. You don’t want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn’t already guessed.”

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135. “There’s something kind of heroic about being a bookseller.”

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136. “The one real fight they’d ever had was over David Foster Wallace.”

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137. “Pregnant, she looked like a pretty Gollum.”

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138. “There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.”

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139. “In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.”

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140. “As the brain is detaching from the body, you think, How I will miss the horses.”

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141. “People knowing your private business gave them power over you” -Anya.”

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142. “People like what they like, and that’s the great and terrible thing.”

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143. “Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story.”

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144. “Before I met you, I felt this constantly. I felt it with my family, my friends, and every boyfriend I ever had. I felt it so often that I thought this was the nature of living. To be alive was to accept that you were fundamentally alone.” Simon’s.”

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145. “I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told myself.”

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146. “He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you’re lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, and they don’t remember those for very long.”

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147. “Living, it seemed to her, was the acquiring of bad habits. Dying, the process of rescinding them.”

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148. “Evey day, there is less of me. Today I am thoughts without words. Tomorrow I will be a body without thoughts. And so it goes.”

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149. “But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn’t love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?”

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150. “In the future, he will rethink his unlocked-door policy. Though it had occurred to him that something might be stolen, he had never considered the possibility that something might be left.”

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