Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

Oh, you don't want to hear all my sad stories. I can't even bear to tell them anymore. Screw the past, right?

Galina: You want to control the world and everyone in it, but you can't. Let whatever this is - and it's likely nothing - play out... Anya: So we do nothing? Galina: Sometimes that's the only thing to do.

Ah, but Sadie Green was a gamer! In a game, if a sign warns you not to open a certain door, you will definitely open that door. If it doesn't work out, you can always go back to the save point and start again.

The game character, like the self, is contextual.

But honestly, it's best not to think of the mechanics of flight while you're doing it.

He was so handsome. I nearly wanted to swoon. The word swoon had never even popped into my head before I saw him that night, let alone as something that I might do.

I forget how young you are. You're still at the age where you mistake your friends and your colleagues for family.

The key to happiness in life is knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.

People knowing your private business gave them power over you" -Anya

How to explain to Destiny that the thing that made her work leap forward in 1996 was that she had been a dervish of selfishness, resentment, and insecurity? Sadie had willed herself to be great: art doesn't typically get made by happy people.

Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They're the last to go. And then once you've forgotten enough, you love someone else.

To be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quite a kind of song.

They, honest to God, think their traumas are the most interesting thing about them. I sound like I'm making fun, and I am a little, but I don't mean to be. They're so different from us, really. Their standards are higher; they call bullshit on so much of the sexism and racism that I, at least, just lived with. But that's also made them kind of, well, humorless.

Mine Sadie. This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.

What is a storm? Sadie thought. It is water, and it is light, and it is wind. And it is how these three elements act on the surfaces they touch. How hard can that be?

Sadie had willed herself to be great: art doesn't typically get made by happy people.

It's more than romantic. It's better than romance It's friendship.

My class talks a lot about their traumas. And how their traumas inform their games. They, honest to God, think their traumas are the most interesting thing about them. I sound like I'm making fun, and I am a little, but I don't mean to be. They're so different from us, really. Their standards are higher; they call bullshit on so much of the sexism and racism that I, at least, just lived with.

So, I do want to be rich and famous. I am, as you know, a bottomless pit of ambition and need. But I also want to make something sweet.

Friendship," Marx said, "is kind of like having a Tamagotchi." Tamagotchis, the digital pet keychains, were everywhere that year.

1) all things were knowable by anyone, and (2) anything was fixable if you took the time to figure out what was broken.

You know the best thing about Donkey Kong ?" Sadie asked. "That it's named for the villain? The innovative use of barrels as weapons?" "The necktie," she said. "It's brilliant design. Without it, the question of his dick would always be hanging out there ." "Literally.