Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

designed to be the loudest

Who the hell are you?' A.J. asks the baby.

The boredom you speak of, it is what most of us call happiness.

How did you ever survive that scandal?" She said, "I refused to be shamed." "How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming," she said.

Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.

And then, despite the fact that A.J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

Before your mother, my heart was little more than a seed, Jane. A wiggly, gelatinous mother, rather like a solitary sperm.

I stopped 'not' looking at her breasts for a moment in order to look in her eyes. I saw amusement and understanding there, and I was in love. At that age (or any age for that matter), our hearts are simple enough.

Why wouldn't you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it.

I would say I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn't? When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?

There is no Allison Springs, Maine, but I can attest to the reality of Boca Raton, Florida: I grew up there.

I wish I had what you and Grandma have." "You have different things," Dong Hyun said. "You were born into a different world than I was. Maybe you don't need what Grandma and I have.

He pulls on a bathrobe and throws on his running shoes, which haven't gotten much mileage on them of late.

when she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II. Gently

The best way to get to Margarettown is to 'try' to get lost.

She's my best friend," Sam said. "Sure," Marx said, "I get that. But is it, you know—I hope this isn't weird that I'm asking this—is it romantic? Or has it ever been romantic?" "No," Sam said. "We've never…It's more than romantic. It's better than romance. It's friendship.

Nadie es perfecto, y lo que ella sabe con toda certeza es que él es bello y él le hace sentirse bella. Y cuando ella habla, él en realidad escucha. Y cuando él la mira, él realmente la mira.

No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World Inside

She realized what a gate was: it was an indication that you had left one space and were entering another. She walked through another gate. It occurred to Sadie: She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.)

Macbeth has just heard the news that his wife had died, and he is giving the most famous soliloquy from the play, the "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" speech.

saw a show where a convicted murderer did law school by correspondence so that he could try to get himself acquitted." "I'm not a murderer," she said. "I'm a slut, and you can't be acquitted of that.

Um lugar não é um lugar de verdade sem uma livraria.

But aren't we all actually fictions of each other?

The top one in the pile is a young-adult fantasy novel in which the main character is dead. Ugh, A.J. thinks. Two of his least favorite things (postmortem narrators and young-adult novels) in one book.