Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

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?

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

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.

Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.

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

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.

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

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