Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.

It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

Generally, the best art comes from people that are a bit alienated from the system. I think it’s that friction that actually leads to making good books or good games, and not just being like, I’m a company man, or something for that system.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

He was happiest when he did not have to think about his body — when he could forget that he had a body at all.

The year Sadie was admitted to MIT, women were slightly over a third of her class, but somehow, it felt like even less than that. Sadie sometimes felt as if she could go weeks without seeing a woman. It might have been that the men, most of them at least, assumed you were stupid if you were a woman. Or, if not stupid, less smart than they were. They were operating under the assumption that it was easier to get into MIT if you were a woman, and statistically, it was — women had a 10 percent higher admittance rate over men. But there could have been many reasons for that statistic. A likely one was self-elimination: female applicants to MIT might have held themselves to higher standards than male applicants. The conclusion should not have been that the women who got into MIT were less gifted, less worthy of their places, and yet, that seemed to be what it was.

To be alive was to accept that your were fundamentally alone.

Have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

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

You know what they say. Cold hands. Warm heart," Yuji said. "Or is it the reverse?

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.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

privacy gives you creative freedom.

It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.

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