Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

To build a world for someone seems a romantic thing from where I stand." Dov shook his head. "Sam Masur, that fucked-up, romantic kid.

Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know

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

Zweisamkeit' is the feeling of being alone even when you're with other people." Simon turned to

The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures."

"That's an oversimplification of the issue."

"The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world don't you? I'm terrified of that world and I don't want to live in a that world, and as a mixed race person, I literally don't exist in it. My dad, who I barely knew, was Jewish. My mom was an American-born Korean. I was raised by Korean immigrant grandparents in Korea Town Los Angeles and as any mixed race person will tell you — to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.

Your cousin Albert told me that, in business, they call this a pivot. But life is filled with them, too. The most successful people are also the most able to change their mindsets.

I love you, ... It is hard for me to say, because sometimes it doesn't seem like it is enough.

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.

They didn't put a scarlet letter on her chest, but they didn't need to. That's what the Internet is for.

She sleeps; she sleeps.
And when she sleeps, she dreams.
And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?

You love being Ruby's mother, but loving Ruby does not stop you from wanting things for yourself.

There's no game without the NPCs. There's just some bullshit hero, wandering around with no one to talk to and nothing to do.

What a funny turn of phrase, she thought. Licking your wounds would only make them worse, no? The mouth was filled with so much bacteria. But Sadie knew it was easy to get addicted to the taste of your own carnage.

It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.