Gabrielle Zevin: Quotes about people

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

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

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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