Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

How much of your life had been a roll of the big polyhedral die in the sky?

People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? —A.J.F.

Life was expensive anywhere you were.

Remember: you are as good as you are tomorrow.

Hi ha una època per a qualsevol aspirant a artista en la qual el seu gust excedeix les seves habilitats.

phenomenological

She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.)

To make a game is to imagine the person playing it.

I feel like I've fucked everything up. I'm a fucking genius so I don't know why I fuck everything up all the time, but I do. I want to stop but I don't know how.

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?

En Sam sempre havia dit que en Marx era la persona més afortunada que havia conegut mai: tenia sort amb els amants, a la feina, en l'aspecte físic, en la vida. Però com més coneixia en Marx, més pensava la Sadie que en Sam no havia entès la veritable naturalesa de la bona fortuna d'en Marx. En Marx era afortunat perque ho veia tot com una riquesa fortuita.

The universe, he felt, was just—or if not just, fair enough.

I què és l'amor, al capdavall -va dir l'Alabaster-, tret del desig irracional de deixar de banda la competitivitat evolutiva per facilitar el viatge d'algú altre a través de la vida?

I have found that the most intimate relationships allow for a great deal of privacy within them.

Sometimes, this good old world does not much care what you believe.

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.

You are American, Japanese, Korean and by being all of those things, you are not truly any of those things.

You want less crime? Make it so there are less criminals.

There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities.

Winning is accepting that there are some races a person cannot win.

What I think you should consider," Alabaster said, "is the rarity of finding a playmate in either this world or the other world.

Once I surrendered to it, all I tasted was the sweetness.

I fail in my work every day, but I keep turning over the problems until I'm not failing anymore. But public failures are different, it's true." "So, what do I do?" she asked. "You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you and it's a perfect time for you to sit down in front of your computer and make another game. You try again. You fail better.

The awareness gave him pause: perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.