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“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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