Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

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? —

Friendship", Marx said, "is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.

A bromide about the creative process is that an artist's first idea is usually the best one.

Why was it acceptable for apparently well-meaning people to see the world in such a general way?

A.J. finds that he cannot make eye contact with either his daughter or Lambiase. It is twenty-nine degrees, but shame is keeping him warm.

If their traumas are the most interesting things about them, how do they get over any of it?

I hate book parties," A.J. says. "But you run the bookstore," Lambiase says. "It's a problem," A.J. admits.

It is relatively easy to pack up your life when you're twenty-three, and Sadie was significantly finished by the time Dov returned from the break.

A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don't you? I'm terrified of that world , and I don't want to live in it. My dad, who I barely knew, was Jewish. My mom was an American-born Korean. I was raised by Korean immigrant grandparents in Koreatown, Los Angeles. And as any mixed race person will tell you--to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.

He knew that truly unusual minds were rare.

Beauty, after all, is almost always a matter of angles and resolve.

Looks like the weather's bad in Mapletown. Grab your umbrella, and we'll be back real soon.

For most of his life, Sam had found it difficult to say I love you. It was superior, he believed, to show love to those one loved. But now, it seemed like one of the easiest things in the world Sam could do. Why wouldn't you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did. —

Nadie viaja sin motivo. Quien se pierde es porque desea perderse.

as coisas que nos tocam aos vinte não são necessariamente as que nos tocam aos quarenta, e vice-versa. isso é verdade para livros e para a vida.

Generally, obsessively, licking her wounds. What a funny turn of phrase, she thought. Licking your wounds would only make them worse, no? The mouth was filled with so much bacteria.

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 requires trust and love.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a novel about work, and I would be remiss if I did not thank my colleagues, whose ideas, skills, questions, observations, provocations, encouragements, witticisms, letters, phone calls, Zooms, texts, PowerPoint presentations, and occasional course corrections have improved this book enormously.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is equally about love.

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.

We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. 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. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the one you were living.

Go ask Sadie what it would take to turn Mapletown into an online role-playing game. And here I am. I obey the giant bird of dreams.

I don't think she wants me to visit her." "It doesn't take long to get to Boston anymore," Dong Hyun said. "It takes about six hours by plane. Same amount of time as it's always taken." "Faster than getting from Venice to Echo Park in traffic," Dong Hyun said.

If you're honest with yourself, one of the reasons you moved into an off-campus apartment and didn't get any roommates is because you hoped something like this would happen. You set the stage, and you knew the player wouldn't be able to resist the call of the theater.