Top 500 Gabrielle Zevin Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “I like all weddings, but isn’t it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

252. “I thought of summer as the living time; the rest of the year was the backward time, the writing time.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

254. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

255. “Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

257. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

258. “Imagine getting to be one of those people who actually gets paid to talk about literature.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

259. “The first way Maya approaches a book is to smell it.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

260. “It’s when you don’t need something that you tend to lose it.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

262. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

263. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

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

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266. “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

267. “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

268. “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

269. “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

270. “No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

271. “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

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

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274. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

275. “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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276. “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

277. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

278. “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

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

285. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

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288. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

289. “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?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

290. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

291. “And in the end, she had decided she preferred being his creative partner to being his lover. There were so many people who could be your lover, but, if she was honest with herself, there were relatively few people who could move you creatively.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

292. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

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295. “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

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

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

298. “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.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

299. “All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture, by Harold Goldberg;.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gabrielle Zevin