Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

Have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who like talking about books. I like paper. I like how it feels, and I like the feel of a book in my back pocket. I like how a new book smells, too.

Bookstores attract the right kind of folk.

Unfortunately, the human brain is every bit as closed a system as a Mac.

I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

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

He knows she isn't perfect. She knows he definitely isn't perfect. They know there's no such thing as perfect.

...love, he thinks. What a bother. It's completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive his business to ruin. The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.
No, the most annoying thing about it is that he's even started to like Elmo.

What does love even mean when you can find it with so many people and things?

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

People like what they like, and that's the great and terrible thing.

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.