Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

I am so tired of your crap. Do you honestly think you suffer more than everyone else? Do you think you suffer more than I do? Do you think you're the first person to ever have a baby? Or lose someone? Do you think you're some goddamned pioneer when it comes to grief?

Guns are so fucking romantic to you Americans, because you don't know what it is to be at war and to be constantly under siege. It's truly pathetic.

Sadie loathed games where the box art was spectacular but when you went to play the actual game, it looked nothing like the concept art.

Playing Dungeons & Dragons in a group of two people is a peculiar, intimate experience

When we're young we think everything has to be wrapped up in a month. But you should take the long view on this one. Before you make a move, be sure, Anya. And even once you're sure, tread carefully. And remember you don't have to do what they expect you to do" -Charles Delacroix

it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

Emily was five months pregnant when she decided to open the bookstore. Friendship didn't have one, and it would be a way for Emily to read more and farm less. She sold off her farm equipment at a 50 percent loss and she rented out her unused land to Alabaster. Emily allocated most of her remaining gold to the construction of a small building in town. She named the store Friendship Books.

To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt.

Estamos todos vivendo, no máximo, metade de uma vida, pensou. Havia a vida que você viveu, que consistia das escolhas que você fez. E aí havia outra vida, aquela das coisas que você não tinha escolhido. E às vezes aquela outra vida parecia tão palpável quanto a que você estava vivendo.

He hasn't said more than two words to anyone in the six weeks since he was injured. He's been in terrible pain, and he'll probably have to be in and out of the hospital for a very long time. It was a big deal that he talked to you.

Zweisamkeit" é a sensação de estar sozinho mesmo quando se está com outras pessoas. [...] Senti isso tantas vezes que pensei que isso era parte da vida. Que estar vivo era aceitar que estamos todos essencialmente sozinhos.

What after all, is a video game's subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?

Marx, should you take a weapon?" This is the question of a serious gamer. A gamer should never enter a potential combat situation without checking one's inventory and confirming the availability of a weapon.

Los Angeles, especially when taken from a distance, was not a beautiful city, but she could will herself to be beautiful, if only for two weeks.

I longed for Mum in the most primitive way.

Just because something is a small problem doesn't mean it shouldn't be addressed. Small injustices conceal larger ones" -Anya

But for Marx, the world was like a breakfast at a five-star hotel in an Asian country—the abundance of it was almost overwhelming. Who wouldn't want a pineapple smoothie, a roast pork bun, an omelet, pickled vegetables, sushi, and a green-tea-flavored croissant? They were all there for the taking and delicious, in their own way.

She was intelligent, but her intelligence didn't get in her way of her enthusiasm

Ant shrugged. "What's better than work?" He paused. "What's worse than work?

Sam used to say that Marx was the most fortunate person he had ever met—he was lucky with lovers, in business, in looks, in life. But the longer Sadie knew Marx, the more she thought Sam hadn't truly understood the nature of Marx's good fortune. Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty.

You don't know much about guns, other than the guns you've used in video games, like Doom . And even when you play Doom , guns are not your weapon of choice. You prefer a chainsaw or a rocket launcher, weapons with more Grand Guignol-style thrills to them.

Beauty, after all, is almost always a matter of angles and resolve. Urban renewal projects were accomplished so frantically it seemed like time-lapse photography.

The good news is that the pain is in your head." But I am in my head, Sam thought.

Limitations are style if you make them so.