Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

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

In games, the thing that matters most is the order of things. The game has an algorithm, but the player also must create a play algorithm in order to win. There is an order to any victory. There is an optimal way to play any game.

What's Torschlusspanik?" Sam said. "It means 'gate-shut panic,'" Simon said. "It's the fear that time is running out and that you're going to miss an opportunity. Literally, the gate is closing, and you'll never get in.

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?

Video games don't make people violent, but maybe they falsely give you the idea that you can be a hero.

How I will miss the horses.

It's difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything's changed.

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

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

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

In reading Twain, I often suspect he is having more fun than I am.

I always wanted to try the Turkish Delight in Narnia. When I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as a boy, I used to think that Turkish Delight must be incredibly delicious if it made Edmund betray his family," A.J. says. "I guess I must have told my wife this, because one year Nic gets a box for me for the holidays. And it turned out to be this powdery, gummy candy. I don't think I've ever been so disappointed in my entire life.

In my opinion, wounds are like water boiled — they heal best left unwatched.

For the record, everything new is not worse than everything old.

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