Top 500 Gabrielle Zevin Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “My point is, it’s tempting,” she said. “It is certainly tempting to continue on with something because it has already begun.”

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252. “But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.”

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253. “Maybe it was the willingness to play that hinted at a tender, eternally newborn part in all humans. Maybe it was the willingness to play that kept one from despair.”

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254. “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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255. “She could remember the sensation of flying through the air, which seemed to last an eternity. She could remember feeling reckless, happy, and doomed, all at the same time. She could remember thinking, I am above gravity.”

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

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257. “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.”

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

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259. “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.”

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260. “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.”

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261. “Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know.”

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262. “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.”

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

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264. “How I will miss the horses.”

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

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

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

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268. “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.”

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269. “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.”

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270. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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279. “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.”

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280. “How do I go on when the person I love most in the world is in love with someone else? Someone tell me the solution, he thought, so I don’t have to play this losing game all the way through.”

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

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

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283. “I thought you were worried I was going to die,” Sam said. “No. You’ll never die. And if you ever died, I’d just start the game again,” Sadie said. “Sam’s dead. Put another quarter in the machine.” “Go back to the save point. Keep playing, and we’ll win eventually.”

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

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

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

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287. “Sam was her friend, but “friend” was a broad category, wasn’t it? “Friend” was a word that was overused to the point that it had no meaning at all.”

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

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290. “He loved the intimacy of being in a tight group of people who had come together, miraculously, for a brief period in time, for the purpose of making art.”

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291. “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.”

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292. “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.”

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293. “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.”

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

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295. “Sammy, we were together. You must know that. When I’m honest with myself, the most important parts of me were yours.”

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296. “To Marx, it seemed foolish not to love as many things as you could.”

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

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

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299. “I have a pain that exists only in my head,” she said, once some of her vitality had been restored. “I have had it my whole life. But when I feel that pain, I am incapacitated by it, and I am certain that I can’t go on.”

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300. “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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