Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

I Am a Strange Loop, by Doug Hofstadter

Sam and his mother, Anna Lee, arrived in Los Angeles in July of 1984. It was the summer of the Olympics, the first Summer Olympics to be held in the United States in fifty years. The mood was hopeful and manic.

Beneath Sadie's eyes were barely perceptible crescents, but then, she'd had these as a kid too. Still, he felt she seemed tired. Sam looked at Sadie, and he thought, 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.

Ogni artista in erba attraversa una fase in cui il suo gusto è molto superiore alle sue capacità. L'unico modo per superarla è creare ugualmente.

He wanted Ichigo's life, a lifetime of endless, immaculate tomorrows, free of mistakes and the evidence of having lived.

I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told myself.

Alice was clever, but she had the kind of cleverness that verged on the unkind

She could feel herself forgetting all the details of Marx---the sound of his voice, the feeling of his fingers and the way they gestured, his precise temperature, his scent on clothing, the way he looked walking away, or running up a flight of stairs. Eventually, Sadie imagined that Marx would be reduced to a single image: just a man standing under a torii gate, holding his hat in his hands, waiting for her.

It is lucky, she thinks, that we don't feel all the love inside us every moment.

Tell me I don't know you, Sam thought. Tell me I don't know you when I could draw both sides of this hand, your hand, from memory.

The Hero's Journey

Perché farla, una cosa, se non credi che abbia un grande potenziale.

You wouldn't be abandoning me if you stopped to get a Band-Aid, you know.

Una cosa davvero magnifica del modo in cui il cervello era programmato, rifletté, era che poteva dire: «Scusi», mentre in realtà pensava: Vaffanculo.

The child's body moves the way a body can move before it has felt or even encountered the idea of pain.

revolved around Macbeth

He was twelve, on the verge of being more man than boy. Every day, Sam became more of a mystery to Anna, even his smells, once so familiar, were a mystery, and there was a feeling of mourning to this. Yet, still Sam knew with certainty that his mother was the most beautiful woman in the world.

The lines mean that one doesn't have to be a god or a king for your life to have meaning.

Sadie felt a swelling love and of worry for him -- what was the difference in the end? It was never worth worrying about someone you didn't love. And it wasn't love if you didn't worry.

What was amazing to Sam—and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie—was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location. As Sadie would put it in an interview with

And then, because the world is relentless this way, it was spring.

But Sadie knew it was easy to get addicted to the taste of your own carnage.

I love you," Daedalus said. "It is hard for me to say, because sometimes it doesn't seem like it is enough.

To be alive was to accept that you were fundamentally alone.