Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

Or, I'm sorry, is Ichigo a him?" "Sam and Sadie say them." "Cool. When the parents can't recognize them. That moment is straight out of The Odyssey.

The best you can wish for anyone is a video game death. Which is to say, spectacular and brief.

Typically, a game character stays the same age and of the series---think Mario or Lara Croft. The reasons for this are simple: branding, and it is much less work .

As the brain is detaching from the body, you think, How I will miss the horses.

She almost seemed to be an extension of him, and he, of her.

Embeth looked at the return address. It was from her most faithful friend, Shipment Fulfillment Center.

We can never know what else might have happened had other competitors been there. The Russian girls could have won, or they could have gotten jet-lagged and choked." Anna shrugged. "And this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It's the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.

The boredom you speak of," Alabaster said. "It is what most of us call happiness.

Do you leave the formation of memories to happenstance, or do you decide to remember?

I believe when it is convenient for me to believe.

Talvolta i libri non ci trovano finchè non è il momento giusto.

They had the rare kind of friendship that allowed for a great deal of privacy within it. One of the reasons they had become such good friends originally was because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity.

But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.

They say it's all in my head." Marx thought about this. "But what pain isn't?

In the end, she decided, with some amount of disappointment, that none of them were involved romantically.

Condividere un libro è il modo migliore per aprire il nostro cuore e raccontare qualcosa di noi

In the end, they didn't like her because they didn't like her. She wasn't going to reason them out of their dislike. She wasn't going to teach anyone anything.

But jackets are the redheaded stepchildren of book publishing. We blame them for everything.

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. It is the human equivalent of the dog rolling on its back—I know you won't hurt me, even though you can. It is the dog putting its mouth around your hand and never biting down. To play

The first way Maya approaches a book is to smell it.

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

The best you can wish for anyone, Sam decided, is a video game death. Which is to say, spectacular and brief.

Dancing was a kind of surrender to feeling, to sound, to the present" -Anya

Dead Sea was her comfort game. She decided she'd go back to her apartment and kill zombies for a while.