Top 500 Gabrielle Zevin Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I don’t think you can really run away from things. They tend to follow you” -Anya.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

152. “We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. 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. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the one you were living.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

153. “Despite everything that transpired at Unfair Games on December 4th, 2005, and despite evidence to the contrary, it is not an inevitability that we should be our worst selves behind the mask of an avatar.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

159. “If you’re always aiming for perfection, you won’t make anything at all.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

160. “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

161. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

164. “The way he saw it, he would be proposing to Sadie. He would be getting down on one knee and saying, “Will you work with me? Will you give me your time, and will you trust my hunch that this time will be well spent? Will you believe that we could make great things together?” For all his natural arrogance, he did not assume that she would say yes.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

165. “Why was it acceptable for apparently well-meaning people to see the world in such a general way?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

166. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

168. “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

171. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

172. “And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I’d thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

173. “It is lucky, she thinks, that we don’t feel all the love inside us every moment. We couldn’t breathe or walk or eat. It is lucky that it just flares up every now and again then resolves itself into a manageable dormancy.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

175. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

177. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

178. “Her mother likes to say that novels have ruined Amelia for real men.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

180. “I don’t think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

181. “It is a well-known fact that hate shows up on your face once you’re forty.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

182. “In truth, she hadn’t put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don’t really need to ask themselves if they are happy or not, do they? They just are happy, she thinks.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

183. “We had been there about four days when she said, “It feels like last year was a dream,” she said. “It feels like I had a fever, and the fever has finally broken.” “I’m glad,” I said. “Still,” she said, “sometimes I miss the fever.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

184. “He was so handsome. I nearly wanted to swoon. The word swoon had never even popped into my head before I saw him that night, let alone as something that I might do.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

185. “My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

186. “What is the point of bad dates if not to have amusing anecdotes for your friends?”

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187. “When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

188. “It was superior, he believed, to show love to those one loved. But now, it seemed like one of the easiest things in the world Sam could do. Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

189. “Bookstores attract the right kind of folk.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

190. “It was never worth worrying about someone you didn’t love. And it wasn’t love if you didn’t worry.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

191. “A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don’t you? I’m terrified of that world, and I don’t want to live in it. My dad, who I barely knew, was Jewish. My mom was an American-born Korean. I was raised by Korean immigrant grandparents in Koreatown, Los Angeles. And as any mixed race person will tell you – to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

192. “Why are you so quiet?” he asks. Because, you want to say, I am a person with an interior world that you know nothing about.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

193. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

194. “When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

195. “I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quite a kind of song.”

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196. “If you’re honest with yourself, one of the reasons you moved into an off-campus apartment and didn’t get any roommates is because you hoped something like this would happen. You set the stage, and you knew the player wouldn’t be able to resist the call of the theater.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

197. “You would think women would want to stick together when there weren’t that many of them, but they never did. It was as if being a woman was a disease that you didn’t wish to catch. As long as you didn’t associate with the other women, you could imply to the majority, the men: I’m not like those other ones.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

198. “Daddy once said, “If you don’t know what you believe, Annie, you’ll be a lost soul.”

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199. “Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.”

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200. “Babies move more than books and aren’t as conveniently shaped.”

— Gabrielle Zevin