Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

About Gabrielle Zevin:

Gabrielle Zevin is an American author and screenwriter.
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Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.

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Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.

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What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?

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All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem ...

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My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

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On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.

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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.

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There's a difference between being alive and living.

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...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

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Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

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Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

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Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road.

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Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

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The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind...

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The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself. No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.

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Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt, narcissistic, silly, and generally unpleasant people. He tries to avoid the ones who've written books he loves for fe...

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You don't choose a book the book chooses you

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They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

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I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn't be—basically, gimmicks of any kind. I find literary f...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameGabrielle Zevin
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornOctober 24, 1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Author; Novelist
  • WorksElsewhere