Top 500 Gabrielle Zevin Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Life is very long, unless it is not.”

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102. “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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103. “Love you madly, my sweet friend.” Love you madly. The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

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105. “There is no purity to bearing pain alone.”

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

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108. “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.”

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109. “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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110. “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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111. “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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112. “Maya, we are what we love. We are that we love.”

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

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114. “It’s easier to be happy than to be sad. Being sad takes alot of work. It’s exhausting.”

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

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

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.”

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121. “Violence should not always beget more violence.”

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122. “Zweisamkeit’ is the feeling of being alone even when you’re with other people.” Simon turned to look in his husband’s eyes. “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.”

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

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

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125. “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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126. “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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127. “Pregnant, she looked like a pretty Gollum.”

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

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129. “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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130. “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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131. “I don’t think you can really run away from things. They tend to follow you” -Anya.”

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132. “But even a declawed tiger still has teeth... ” -Anya.”

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133. “A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy.”

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134. “What, after all, is a video game’s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?”

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135. “They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”

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136. “I believe when it is convenient for me to believe.”

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137. “But then again, maybe ‘I will’ is nicer. It has the future in it. ‘I do’ just has the present.”

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

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139. “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.”

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

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141. “Last year, that Fischer idiot threw a black-and-white cookie at me, and I started to wonder if every principal exited this school with a ceremonial baked good fling.”

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

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143. “That Woman is in love with her own grief.”

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144. “I want this job.” “Many people do, my girl.” “How do I get it?” Maya asks. “Reading, as aforementioned.” Maya nods. “I do that.” “A good chair.” “I have one of those.” “Then you’re well on your way,” Daniel tells her before setting her back on the ground. “I’ll.”

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145. “Maybe if I’d been braver in that moment, I would have cried.”

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146. “Dancing was a kind of surrender to feeling, to sound, to the present” -Anya.”

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147. “But you, you can never do anything hard. And I let you be that way.”

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148. “You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.”

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149. “A glimmer of a notion of a nothing of a whisper of a figment of an idea.”

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150. “But I can tell you that the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend.”

— Gabrielle Zevin