Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

And as much as a person might try to shield herself from it, the possibility for the other outcome was always there. 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

Marx's favorite adjective was "interesting.

I love you, too, Grandpa." 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.

And that is the truth of any game – it can only exist at the moment 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.

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

It would be so easy, Ismay thinks. You walk out. You swim for a while. You swim too far. You don't try to swim back. Your lungs fill up. It hurts for a bit, but then it's over. Nothing ever hurts again, and your conscience is clear. You don't leave a mess. Maybe your body washes up some day. Maybe it doesn't.

He is thinking about his brain. It strikes him that it is odd to have to use the thing that may not be working to consider the thing that isn't working.

He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.

The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books

I say, "I just don't like you

She chose the brassavola, which looked like clusters of delicate calla lilies. "Ah," said Schiele, "the Lady of the Night." "It's actually called that?" I asked. "Or is that your weird pet name for it?" "It releases a perfume in the evening," he said. "Don't worry, Franny. It smells great.

We are not quite short stories. At

You think how much these books are like life. Except in Choose Your Own Adventure, you can move backward, and you can choose something else if you don't like how the story turned out, or if you just want to know the other possible outcomes. You would like to do that, but you can't. Life moves relentlessly forward.

What can a single man know about child rearing?

?ôi khi ph?i ch? tá»›i má»™t th?i Ä'i?m thích h?p, nh?ng cu?n sách má»›i tìm ??n chúng ta.

I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?

It's just an absence seizure. I used to have them a lot as a kid. I rarely have them as an adult except when I'm unusually stressed." "You should see a doctor.

Kiedy? przekonasz si?, ?e ludzie z regu?y nie s? ani ca?kiem dobrzy, ani ?li. Mo?e w nich tkwi? odrobina dobra i ca?a masa z?a albo mog? by? z gruntu dobrzy z niewielk? domieszk? z?a

She should be nicer. It's a well-known fact that hate shows up on your face once you're forty.

I'm meant to love you, no matter how you act, no matter what you do? I couldn't respect myself if I felt that way.

Wobec tego b?dziesz sam siebie s?dzi?. To najtrudniejsze. Znacznie trudniej jest s?dzi? siebie ni? bli?niego. Je?li potrafisz dobrze siebie os?dzi?, b?dziesz naprawd? m?dry.

She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.

What do you read?" Ismay asks. "Little bit of everything. I started with crime novels. Pretty predictable that, I guess. But then A.J. got me into other kinds of books, too. Literary fiction, I think you'd call it. Some of it doesn't have enough action for my taste. Kind of embarrassing, but I like young adult. Plenty of action there and feelings, too.

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "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