Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.

in business, they call this a pivot. But life is filled with them, too. The most successful people are also the most able to change their mindsets. You may not ever have a romantic relationship with Sadie, but you two will be friends for the rest of your lives, and that is something of equal or greater value, if you choose to see it that way.

The detail of Macbeth throwing dinner rolls at Banquo's empty chair comes from the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2018 production of Macbeth, directed by Polly Findlay and starring Christopher Eccleston in the title role.

The score had stood so long, it had burned into the monitor.

It begins to seem to me that life is little more than a series of losses, and as you must know by now, I hate losing.

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently

That's the gamer in you, trying to figure out how you might have beat the level. My brain is treacherous like that, too. But there was nothing you could have done, Ant. The game wasn't winnable.

You are dying. No, that came out wrong. What you meant to express was the existential grief that comes with the knowledge that all things die. You are not dying, except insofar as you have always been dying.

You can't unilaterally decide to work on it." "Marx'll back me." "I bet he will." "He'll back me because it could be a great game, Sam." "He'll back you because he takes your side in everything. Because he's screwing you.

It is time for you to set your house in order.

How did we get through?' Bong Cha had been baffled by Sam's question. 'We got up in the morning.

The coyotes felt capable, canny, and strangely anthropomorphized, as if they had been endowed with human features by a team of animators. Their hair seemed artfully disheveled, the haircut of a hot, young actor playing a drug addict in an independent film. The coyotes felt more human than most of the humans Sam encountered, more human than Sam himself felt back then.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Sam felt a peacefulness come over him when he was playing Donkey Kong in his grandparents' pizza parlor. When he could time the little Japanese Italian plumber's jumps and ascend the staircases at the right pace, it felt as if the universe was capable of being ordered. It felt as if it were possible to achieve a perfect timing. It felt like synchronicity.

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life

These were his strawberries. These were birds he knew. No designer had ever used red or yellow in an indigo discharge dyeing technique before. He must have had to start over many times to get the colors right. This fabric is not just a fabric. It's the story of failure and of perseverance, of the discipline of a craftsman, of the life of an artist." Sadie caressed the

Torschlusspanik," Simon said. "Okay," Sam said. "I'll bite." "Don't encourage him," Ant said. "What's Torschlusspanik?" Sam said. "It means 'gate-shut panic,'" Simon said. "It's the fear that time is running out and that you're going to miss an opportunity. Literally, the gate is closing, and you'll never get in.

A good game designer knows that clinging to a few early ideas about a project can cut off the potential for the work.

It's my sister. She's sick." "What's wrong with her?" "Dysentery.

Marx era un lettore prodigioso e Sadie gli sembrava quel genere di libro che si può leggere e rileggere molte volte, scoprendo sempre qualcosa di nuovo

And what is love, in the end?' Alabaster said. 'Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else's journey through life?

They were an indistinct blur of pastel and white uniforms, like chalk doodles on a sidewalk in the rain.

Video games don't make people violent, but maybe they falsely give you the idea that you can be a hero.

But even a declawed tiger still has teeth..." -Anya