Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

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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

  Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.87, Algonquin Books

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• Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  People, Mind, Earth

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• I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Heart, Promise

  Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.154, Algonquin Books

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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, Controversial Topics, Two

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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

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.166, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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 aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Thinking, Long, People

  Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.251, Algonquin Books

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• The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Vices, Twenties

  Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.41, Algonquin Books

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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, Deserve You

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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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• People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Fall, People, Littles

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.78, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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, Elsewhere

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.111, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Loss, People, Moments

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.104, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The words you can't find, you borrow.
  We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
  My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
  We are not quite novels.
  The analogy he is looking for is almost there.
  We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.
  In the end, we are collected works.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Heart, Stories

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• The only love she inspires is the canine kind.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Inspire, Kind, Canine

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.163, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Daddy, People, Said

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.115, Macmillan

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• Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Should Have, Should

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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, Wish, Together

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Girl, Dream, Sea

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Leap Of Faith, Diving, Gravity

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

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Paperwork

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.47, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.262, Macmillan

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• My brain said no. But my heart!

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Heart, Brain, My Heart

  Gabrielle Zevin (2012). “All These Things I've Done”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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