Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

The most important thing is finding someone you wish to play with.

It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption.

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

If this were a game, he could hit pause. He could restart, say different things, the right ones this time. He could search his inventory for the item that would make Sadie not leave.

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

Other people's parents are often a delight.

What are you reading? Owen asks. Charlotte's Web, Liz says. It's really sad. One of the main characters just died. You ought to read the book from end to beginning, Owen jokes. That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.'

Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?

Have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.

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.

The most successful people are also the most able to change their mindsets.

A.J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn't believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.