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Gabrielle Zevin is an American author and screenwriter.

✵ 24. October 1977  •  Other names گابریل زوین
Gabrielle Zevin photo

Works

Elsewhere
Elsewhere
Gabrielle Zevin
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Elsewhere
Elsewhere
Gabrielle Zevin
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Gabrielle Zevin: 88 quotes5 likes

Famous Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

“It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: Margarettown

“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 book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“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 book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“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.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: Margarettown

“Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin Quotes about love

“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

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: All These Things I've Done

“Love you,” Maya says. “Yes, she keeps saying that,” A. J. says. “I warned her about giving love that hasn’t yet been earned, but honestly, I think it’s the influence of that insidious Elmo. He loves everyone, you know?”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“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 book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin Quotes about life

“Remember, Maya: 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

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“I've been a police officer for twenty years now and I'll tell you, pretty much every bad thing is life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“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

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

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: All These Things I've Done

“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 book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“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

Gabrielle Zevin: Trending quotes

“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 book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“The analogy he is looking for is almost there. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“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 book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“We are not quite novels.
We are not quite short stories.
In the end, we are collected works.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Variant: Have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: All These Things I've Done

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

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“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 book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

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

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“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

Source: All These Things I've Done

“A place ain’t a place without a bookstore”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“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.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A. J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“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.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: Margarettown

“Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me… I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“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.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“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.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

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

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: All These Things I've Done

“There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“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.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“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 book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

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

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: All These Things I've Done

“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.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“The words you can't find, you borrow.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: All These Things I've Done

“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.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Maya, we are what we love. We are that we love.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“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.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: All These Things I've Done

“Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: All These Things I've Done

“On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen…”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a. m.
She weighs six pounds, ten ounces.
The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, "Who are you, my little one?"
And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“His heart is too full, and no words to release it.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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