Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

...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.

In truth, she hadn't put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don't really need to ask themselves if they are happy or not, do they? They just are happy, she thinks.

Love me? You don't even know me," A.J. says. "Little girl, you shouldn't go throwing around your love so easily.

All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.

Los Angeles, especially when taken from a distance, was not a beautiful city, but she could will herself to be beautiful, if only for two weeks. Beauty, after all, is almost always a matter of angles and resolve.

You call your mother. You're in a panic, but as soon as your mother answers the phone, you relax. When your mother is worrying about something, it means that you won't have to.

A.J. has never changed a diaper in his life, though he is a modestly skilled gift wrapper.

The kind of people who spend their lives as permanent guests on a futon are not the kind of people you want to know.

Always remember, mine Sadie: life is very long, unless it is not." Sadie knew this to be a tautology, but it also happened to be true.

You don't choose a book the book chooses you

To return to the city of one's birth always felt like retreat.

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.

It's easier to be happy than to be sad. Being sad takes alot of work. It's exhausting

I'm going to play until the end of this life.

It had not been a lonely childhood, though many of her intimates had been somewhat less than real.