Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

The way I see it," Lambiase says, "you saved A. J. Fikry's life when you stole that manuscript. That's the way I see it." "What kind of cop are you?" Ismay asks. "The old kind," he says.

En stad är ingen stad utan en bokhandel.

My actual daddy used to say that if you didn't let some things go, you'd spend your whole life fighting" -Anya/Mr. Balanchine

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, "What is your favorite book?

We are that we love.

And I and him, and him and me. (I will always remember that he tasted like cigarettes and something passing sweet, which I could not quite identify.) Andiandhimandhimandme. (And so on.)

And she always wants to read the same book. And it's, like, the crappiest board book. The Monster at the End of This Book?

then she said, annoyed, "You get that this is a story about you, right? That's why you lost your mind at a dog park. You're Tuesday. You're the incredibly special dog that no one can classify.

she doesn't want to become the kind of person who thinks that good news can only come from calls one was already expecting and callers one already knows.

Você descobre tudo que precisa saber sobre uma pessoa com a resposta desta pergunta: qual é o seu livro preferido?

Life is messy. Deal with it. If you're judging it, you're not really seeing it" -Dr. Lau

If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.

A. J. does not particularly care for writers . . . . He tries to avoid meeting the ones who've written books he loves for fear that they will ruin their books for him.

What was amazing to Sam—and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie—was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location.

It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us, the passage goes, but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable.

It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us, but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable.

Sam considered his French fries. "Are there other worlds?

How to account for its presence when I know it is only average? The answer is this: Your dad relates to the characters. It has meaning to me. And the longer I do this (bookselling, yes, of course, but also living if that isn't too awfully sentimental), the more I believe that this is what the point of it all is. To connect, my dear little nerd. Only connect.

A.J. several Google searches to determine bathing protocol: appropriate temperature bath water two-year-old; can a two-year-old use grown-up shampoo?; how does a father go about cleaning a two-year-old girl's private parts without being a pervert?; how high to fill tub—toddler; how to prevent a two-year-old from accidentally drowning in tub; general rules for bath safety, and so on.

What is feminism from my point of view as a woman and as a human being?" Who fucking cares? you thought. "It's the right every woman has to make her own choices. People don't have to like your choices, Aviva, but you have a right to make them. Embeth Levin has a right to make them, too. Don't expect a parade." You

and James Patterson (or whoever writes for James Patterson)—

Do you like Moby Dick?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.

What is feminism from my point of view as a woman and as a human being?" Who fucking cares? you thought. "It's the right every woman has to make her own choices. People don't have to like your choices

When you have little, mine Aviva, you learn to take care. When you have much, you must accept that you could someday have little," she would say. "To take care of something is to love it.