Gabrielle Zevin: Trending quotes

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

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.”

Source: Margarettown

“No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.”

Source: Elsewhere

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

Source: Elsewhere

“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.”

Source: Elsewhere

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

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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

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.”

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“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”

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?”

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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

Source: Elsewhere

“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.”

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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

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

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

Source: All These Things I've Done

“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”

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.”

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac