Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

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.

All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.

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

Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.

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

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

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

Every book is a world.

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?

Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

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

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.

I know he's a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person, you have to forgive him sometimes.

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.

...an irresistible of why we read and why we love.We are not quite novels.We are not quite short stories.In the end, we are collected works.

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?"She said, "I refused to be shamed.""How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming," she said.

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.