Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

Não tem ninguém no mundo como o pessoal dos livros. É um negócio de cavalheiros e damas.

Marx's favorite adjective was "interesting." The world seemed filled with interesting books to read, interesting plays and movies to see, interesting games to play, interesting food to taste, and interesting people to have sex with and sometimes even to fall in love with. To Marx, it seemed foolish not to love as many things as you could.

I'm not crying for you. I'm crying for me. Do you know how long it took me to find you? Do you know how many awful dates I've been on? I can't"—she is breathless now—"I can't join Match.com again. I just can't.

I found I had a knack for the combination of discipline, communication, psychology, politics, stagecraft, and creativity that planning a wedding requires.

I love having sex with you," she says. "If you're a vegetable when this is done, can I still have sex with you?

Maya, having recently made her way through The Lord of the Rings trilogy, names it Bag End. "Because it looks as if a hobbit might live here." A.J. kisses his daughter on the forehead. He is delighted to have produced such a fantastic nerd.

In the end, we are collected works. He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you're lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, and they don't remember those for very long. No

He is folding cranes so that your mother can string them. This is marriage.

The nurses deem the e-reader to be more sanitary than a paper book.

Sometimes I feel like the wedding is a Trojan horse. The dream I peddle to distract from the reality of a marriage. They choose these things to distinguish themselves from everyone else. They choose these things to make themselves feel less ordinary. But is there anything more ordinary than choosing to get married?

What's Torschlusspanik?" Sam said. "It means 'gate-shut panic,' " Simon said. "It's the fear that time is running out and that you're going to miss an opportunity. Literally, the gate is closing, and you'll never get in.

porcupine heart. Ismay, A.J.'s choice for godmother, grabs his hand.

Elmo, a character A.J. has always despised because he seems too needy. "Elmo!

Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels.

Emily B. Marks.

When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I

Yes, Dad. Dad is what I am. Dad is what I became. The father of Maya. Maya's dad. Dad. What a word. What a little big word. What a word and what a world!

People design very quickly on a monitor, and they print on some enormous industrial printer in a warehouse in a distant country, and the designer hasn't touched a piece of fabric at any point in the process or gotten her hands dirty with ink. Computers are great for experimentation, but they're bad for deep thinking.

Every day, there is less of me. Today I am thoughts without words. Tomorrow I will be a body without thoughts. And so it goes.

Yes," said the cop. "It wasn't anyone's fault." "People like to say that," A.J. replies. "But it was someone's fault. It was hers. What a stupid thing for her to do. What a stupid melodramatic thing for her to do. What a goddamn Danielle Steel move, Nic! If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

And maybe some of those people will pause before they say gaydar." "They'll pause and say, 'Now I know this isn't PC . . .' and then, they'll say it anyway," Archie says.

People tell boring lies about politics

Because the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.

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.