Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

Why make anything if you don't believe it could be great?

If something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.

Zweisamkeit' is the feeling of being alone even when you're with other people." Simon turned to

There is no purity in art. The process of how you arrive at something doesn't matter at all.

it is not an inevitability that we should be our worst selves behind the mask of an avatar. What I believe to my very core is that virtual worlds can be better than the actual world. They can be more moral, more just, more progressive, more empathetic, and more accommodating of difference. And if they can be, shouldn't they be?

To know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.

What does love even mean when you can find it with so many people and things?

I missed her like a reflex, even though I knew that it was just some trick of my undependable brain. Some stupid, vestigial part. The way humans have appendixes, even though they're pointless and mainly just a pain in the butt and people never even think about them unless they have to have them removed.

She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

People like what they like, and that's the great and terrible thing.

he realized that he had made a grave miscalculation when he had ended the friendship with Sadie. His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.

And the thing about games is, if you get good at one game, you can be good at any game. That's what I think. They're all hand-eye coordination and observing patterns.

A glimmer of a notion of a nothing of a whisper of a figment of an idea.

Always remember, mine Sadie: life is very long, unless it is not.

Why'd you give him all that stuff after he tried to rob me?" "Because he was less fortunate than us, Natty. And Daddy always said that we have to be mindful of those who are less fortunate." "But Daddy killed people, didn't he?" "Yes," I admitted. "Daddy was complex.

What I think you should consider...is the rarity of finding a playmate.

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.

The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time. How light.

He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.

Why are the cute ones always such sociopaths?" "Win doesn't seem like so much of a sociopath," I replied without thinking. "Oh, really? So, you think he's cute, do you? At least you're admitting it now." I shook my head. Scarlet was incorrigible. "Admitting it is the first step, Annie.

The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

Rosie crosses her arm. "That's one of those things you say to sound smart, right?" she says. "But, really, you're trying to make someone else feel stupid.

In games, the thing that matters most is the order of things. The game has an algorithm, but the player also must create a play algorithm in order to win. There is an order to any victory. There is an optimal way to play any game.

Bookstores attract the right kind of folk.