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Elsewhere

Name: Elsewhere
Author: Gabrielle Zevin

Elsewhere is a 2005 young adult, speculative novel by Gabrielle Zevin.

“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.”

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

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

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“And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.”

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“Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me… I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.”

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“I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.”

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

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“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.”

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“The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.”

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“Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?”

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“Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.”

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“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.”

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“A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.”

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“I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.”

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“There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.”

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“On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen…”

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“Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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?”

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