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Gabrielle Zevin is an American author and screenwriter.

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

“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

“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

“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

“But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.”

Gabrielle Zevin

“I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“Showing up is what counts.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Every book is a world.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Variant: No Man Is An Island; Every Book Is A World.
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“I don’t want to die,” A. J. says after a bit. “I just find it difficult to be here all the time.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“I shouldn't have done that," I said.

That was when I kissed him again.

May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.”

Gabrielle Zevin

Source: All These Things I've Done