Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

I don't want to die," A.J. says after a bit. "I just find it difficult to be here all the time.

Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...

How much of your life had been happenstance? How much of your life had been a roll of the big polyhedral die in the sky? But then, weren't all lives that way? Who could say, in the end, that they had chosen any of it?

Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?

And as any mixed-race person will tell you — to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.

I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.

On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen...

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

In my humble opinion, love is when a person believes that he, she or it can't live without some other he, she or it...I said believes. No one actually needs another person or another person's live to survive. Love, Lizzie, is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

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

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m.
She weighs six pounds, ten ounces.
The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, "Who are you, my little one?"
And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.

You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

How I will miss the horses.

Sammy, we were together. You must know that. When I'm honest with myself, the most important parts of me were yours.