Gabrielle Zevin Quotes - Page 4

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• I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Thinking, Secret, Keepers

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• You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

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  Children, Stories, Orphan

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.259, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Children, Night, Unbearable

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• The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.

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  Broken, Too Much, Sometimes

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

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• I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it is true, but also a brain and also a soul. I've come to believe that we love with our brains as much as our hearts. Real Love is not just instinct, but intent...... From year to year, you may not always be the same Jane. This is perfectly normal. A Jane is many Janes in a lifetime.

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  Real, Believe, Heart

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• It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

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  Dad, Book, Talking

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• I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

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  Boys, Littles, Cry

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• When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

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  Writing, School, Eight

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• I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.

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  Children, Powerful, Book

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• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

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  Writing, Grandmother, Florida

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• And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.

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  Flow, Cry, Stairs

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• Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

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  Technology, Phones, Voice

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• Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.

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  Driving Down The Road, Someday, Expecting

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• That Woman is in love with her own grief.

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  Grief

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

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  Falling In Love, Two, People

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• Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.

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  Winning, Thinking, Knowing

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• The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.

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  Wall, Couple, Past

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.177, Macmillan

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• I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.

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  Girl, Knows, Felt

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.196, Macmillan

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• He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.

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  Sexy, Way, Gentle

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• Violence should not always beget more violence.

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  Violence, Should, Begets

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.336, Macmillan

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• He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

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  World

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• Liz, I like you very much," he says. "Oh," she says, "I like you very much, too!" Owen is not sure if she means "O" for Owen, or just plan "Oh." He is not sure what difference it would make in either case. He feels the needs to clarify. "When I said 'I like you very much,' I actually meant 'I love you.'" "O," she says, "I actually meant the same thing." She closes the car door behind her. "Well," he says to himself, driving back to his apartment, "isn't that something?

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  I Like You, Love You, Mean

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• Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

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  Moments, That Moment, Cried

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done: A Novel”, p.236, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.

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  Heart, Two, Long

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