Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

Why make anything if you don't believe it could be great?

Still, Amelia had not allowed herself to be certain until dessert, when she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II.

Daddy once said, "If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul.

He doesn't believe in "the one." There are zillions of people in the world; no one is that special.

There is no purity in art. The process of how you arrive at something doesn't matter at all.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

Why are you so quiet?" he asks. Because, you want to say, I am a person with an interior world that you know nothing about.

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

It's so funny you should say this, because if you were one of my students, you'd be wearing your pain like a badge of honor. This generation doesn't hide anything from anyone. My class talks a lot about their traumas. And how their traumas inform their games. They, honest to God, think their traumas are the most interesting thing about them. I sound like I'm making fun, and I am a little, but I don't mean to be. They're so different from us, really. Their standards are higher; they call bullshit on so much of the sexism and racism that I, at least, just lived with. But that's also made them kind of, well, humorless. I hate people who talk about generational differences like it's an actual thing, and here I am, doing it. It doesn't make sense. How alike were you to anyone we grew up with, you know?

A programmer is a diviner of possible outcomes, and a seer of unseen worlds.

Time was mathematically explicable; it was the heart — the part of the brain represented by the heart — that was the mystery.

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

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

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

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.