Top 500 Gabrielle Zevin Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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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252. “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

253. “It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption.”

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

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

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256. “To return to the city of one’s birth always felt like retreat.”

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257. “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

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

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

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261. “How quickly you go from being the youngest to the oldest person in a room, she thought.”

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262. “It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.”

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263. “So, I do want to be rich and famous. I am, as you know, a bottomless pit of ambition and need. But I also want to make something sweet. Something kids like us would have wanted to play to forget their troubles for a while.”

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264. “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

265. “That love is all there is; is all we know of love. It is enough; the freight should be proportioned to the groove.”

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

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

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268. “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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269. “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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270. “A programmer is a diviner of possible outcomes, and a seer of unseen worlds.”

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271. “They didn’t put a scarlet letter on her chest, but they didn’t need to. That’s what the Internet is for.”

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272. “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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273. “Video games don’t make people violent, but maybe they falsely give you the idea that you can be a hero.”

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274. “The most successful people are also the most able to change their mindsets. You may not ever have a romantic relationship with Sadie, but you two will be friends for the rest of your lives, and that is something of equal or greater value, if you choose to see it that way.”

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275. “As he said to Sam, “If I’ve done the work in the scenes before I die, if I’ve made a real impression, they’ll feel me in the scenes I’m not in anyway.”

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

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277. “It is the same world, she thought, but I am different. Or is it a different world, but I am the same?”

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

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

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280. “Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realise all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travellers, if that makes any sense.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

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282. “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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283. “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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284. “I felt guilty, but lighter. I had turned my problem into someone else’s.”

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285. “Winning is accepting that there are some races a person cannot win.”

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286. “Shinto tradition, a gate represented passing from the mundane to the sacred.”

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

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288. “A bromide about the creative process is that an artist’s first idea is usually the best one.”

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289. “The only love she inspires is the canine kind.”

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290. “She was intelligent, but her intelligence didn’t get in her way of her enthusiasm.”

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291. “How I will miss the horses.”

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

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293. “I have found that the most intimate relationships allow for a great deal of privacy within them.”

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294. “I don’t believe in writer’s block.”

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295. “A woman should never please other people at the expense of pleasing herself.”

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

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297. “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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298. “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.”

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299. “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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300. “I knew your mother so well I could play her part. The same with my own mother and my grandmother and my childhood best friend, Euna, who drowned my the lake by her cousin’s house. There are no ghosts, but up here – she gestured towards her head – it’s a haunted house.”

— Gabrielle Zevin