Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

About Gabrielle Zevin:

Gabrielle Zevin is an American author and screenwriter.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The words you can't find, you borrow.

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There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

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People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

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All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.

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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.

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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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I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it." ~Wil...

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What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

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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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Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter...

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But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

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My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.

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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

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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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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 si...

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It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

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Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

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Since i couldn't remember the "real" first time i'd lost my virginity, this would have become my de facto first time. I wanted a better story then: I did it with this boy who i wasn't very into and who had mysterious Gaterade breath; in his room deco...

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I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

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I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing.

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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

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Author Bio

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