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“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

“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

“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

“What are you reading?" Owen asks.
"Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died."
"You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.'
Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“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

“It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“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 a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: Margarettown

“It was a nice day, and I don't mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like winter was getting annoyed with itself and wanted it to be spring just as much as everyone else.”

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“A. J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn’t believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“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.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: Margarettown

“Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: All These Things I've Done