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“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Book #Needs #Answers
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“Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Fighting #Two #People
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“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Love #Running #Hook
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“It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Moving On #Letting Go #Couple
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“We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Stories #Ends #Novel
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“In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Matter #Family Friends #Used
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“I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Crazy #People #Insanity
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“Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Real #Car #Together
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“No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Love Is #Needs #Persons
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“It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Art #Mean #Way
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“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.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Book #Twenties #Meals
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“I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Paperwork
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“But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Life #Believe #Everyday
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“Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Stupid #Thinking #Forever
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“Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Get Well #Water #Heal
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“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Heartbreak #Heartbroken #Travel
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“Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Daddy #People #Said
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“I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Book #Heart #Promise
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“...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Girl #Lying #Sound
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“Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Dog #Three #Hundred
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“Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Leap Of Faith #Diving #Gravity
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“Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Sides #Stories #Dull
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“The only love she inspires is the canine kind.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Inspire #Kind #Canine
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“On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Beautiful #Together #Wish
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“I met a travler from an ancient land.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Land #Ancient #Mets
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“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.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Book #Reading #Character
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“Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Girl #Moving #Used
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“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.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Thinking #Daddy #Outcomes
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“It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Beautiful #Thinking #Kind
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“Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.”
-- Gabrielle Zevin
#Romance #Done #Littles
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