Top 500 Gabrielle Zevin Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

252. “I met a travler from an ancient land.”

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253. “But then again maybe “I will” is nicer. It has a future in it.”

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254. “Maya has chosen to be ring bearer because the job has more responsibility than flower girl. “If you lose a flower, you get another flower,” Maya reasons. “If you lose the ring, everyone is sad forever.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

255. “Embeth looked at the return address. It was from her most faithful friend, Shipment Fulfillment Center.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

256. “Janine smiles. “Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don’t tell.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

257. “It is time for you to set your house in order.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

258. “I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

259. “I do not know much about boys, but I think superior research skills would be a Very Good Thing to have in a boyfriend.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

260. “It is lucky, she thinks, that we don’t feel all the love inside us every moment.”

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261. “The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

262. “I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

263. “The problem with meeting new people is not that you might not like them, but that you will like them too much.”

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264. “At a certain age – in Sadie’s case, thirty-four – there comes a time when life largely consists of having meals with old friends who are passing through town.”

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265. “Sometimes, I would be in so much pain. The only thing that kept me from wanting to die was the fact that I could leave my body and be in a body that worked perfectly for a while – better than perfectly, actually – with a set of problems that were not my own.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

266. “But the best parts of him were in his books. I suppose I could always read those if I missed him too much. I haven’t wanted to read one yet, though.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

267. “I longed for Mum in the most primitive way.”

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268. “I’m going to play until the end of this life.”

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269. “The store is fifteen Mayas wide and twenty Mayas long. She knows this because she once spent an afternoon measuring it by lying her body across the room. It is fortunate that it is not more than thirty Mayas long because that is as far as she could count on the day the measurements were taken.”

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270. “He was like a bright, warm light over everything in her life. She felt lit up, turned on. There was no one better to talk to about games. Yes, she loved him, but she also liked him. She liked herself when she was with him.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

271. “Just because something is a small problem doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be addressed. Small injustices conceal larger ones” -Anya.”

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272. “But for Marx, the world was like a breakfast at a five-star hotel in an Asian country – the abundance of it was almost overwhelming. Who wouldn’t want a pineapple smoothie, a roast pork bun, an omelet, pickled vegetables, sushi, and a green-tea-flavored croissant? They were all there for the taking and delicious, in their own way.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

273. “What I think you should consider... is the rarity of finding a playmate.”

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274. “In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you’re on your way to do something else.”

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275. “Friendship,” Marx said, “is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.”

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276. “A good game, like Ichigo, was hard, but fair. The “unfair game” was life itself.”

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277. “A programmer is a diviner of possible outcomes, and a seer of unseen worlds.”

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278. “How I will miss the horses.”

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279. “You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. 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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280. “She could feel herself forgetting all the details of Marx – the sound of his voice, the feeling of his fingers and the way they gestured, his precise temperature, his scent on clothing, the way he looked walking away, or running up a flight of stairs. Eventually, Sadie imagined that Marx would be reduced to a single image: just a man standing under a torii gate, holding his hat in his hands, waiting for her.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

281. “If this were a novel, I’d stop reading right now. I’d throw it across the room.”

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282. “But jackets are the redheaded stepchildren of book publishing. We blame them for everything.”

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283. “A Trip to the Beach By Maya Tamerlane Fikry Teacher: Edward Balboni, Alicetown High School Grade 9.”

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284. “She had resisted returning there because to return to one’s hometown felt like surrender.”

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285. “You wouldn’t be abandoning me if you stopped to get a Band-Aid, you know.”

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286. “Amelia’s mother had died two years ago, and though their relationship had been challenging at times, she misses her with an unexpected ferocity. For instance, until her death, her mother had sent her new underwear in the mail every other month. Amelia had not once had to buy underwear her whole life. Recently, she had found herself standing in the lingerie department at TJ Maxx, and as she went through the panty bin, she had begun to cry: No one will ever love me that much again.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

287. “This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

288. “I’m always seeing the world with magic eyes,” he said. “I’m exploding with childish wonder.”

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289. “Friendship is friendship, and charity is charity... the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend.”

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290. “What suit jacket would say “supportive,” “feminist,” “unbroken,” “optimistic”? What one effing suit jacket could possibly accomplish that?”

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291. “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. It is the human equivalent of the dog rolling on its back – I know you won’t hurt me, even though you can.”

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292. “I felt guilty, but lighter. I had turned my problem into someone else’s.”

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293. “Oh yes, it’s very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren’t they much more common?”

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294. “Anticipating the worst doesn’t provide insurance from the worst happening,” Mimmy says.”

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295. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

296. “He knew what he was experiencing was a basic error in programming, and he wished he could open up his brain and delete the bad code. Unfortunately, the human brain is every bit as closed a system as a Mac.”

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297. “There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities.”

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298. “Time was mathematically explicable; it was the heart – the part of the brain represented by the heart – that was the mystery.”

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299. “Always remember, mine Sadie: life is very long, unless it is not.”

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300. “And as much as a person might try to shield herself from it, the possibility for the other outcome was always there. 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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin