“It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.”
Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
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If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her "Chief." She'd know about her mom's new family. She'd know about her dad's fiancée. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn't have wanted to kiss him back. But Naomi picked heads. After her remarkable debut, Gabrielle Zevin has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”
Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Variant: Have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
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“But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.”
Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
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“I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.”
Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
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“What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?”
Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
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