Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

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

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

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

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

~ Gabrielle Zevin

I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

You don't choose a book the book chooses you

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind...

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

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.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?

~ Gabrielle Zevin

I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it.~Will Landsman

~ Gabrielle Zevin

No one will ever love me that much again.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

On the board, Mr. Beery had written Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it. I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

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

I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn’t? When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?

~ Gabrielle Zevin

On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the adults in her life deemed terribly important. Since she had died, everything she was doing on Earth had seemed entirely meaningless. From Liz's point of view, the question of what her life would be was now definitively answered. The story of her life is short and pointless: There once was a girl who got hit by a car and died. The end.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

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

~ Gabrielle Zevin

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

A.J. watches Maya in her pink party dress, and he feels a vaguely familiar, slightly intolerable bubbling inside of him. He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

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

There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

~ Gabrielle Zevin