Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

Hey, pretty girl. How you doing?" "Adopted," she says.

Babies move more than books and aren't as conveniently shaped.

loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It's the ideas that matter, man.

Of course, a wandering mind is not always advisable for the recently deceased and is nearly never advisable for the beginning driver.

Humans are not born forever on the day their mothers have them; life necessitates giving birth to themselves over and over again.

something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.

Anticipating the worst doesn't provide insurance from the worst happening

You've got a decent smile, I'll give you that, but your teeth are too big and so is your ass and you're not twenty-five anymore even if you drink like you are. You shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

She feels very sorry for her mother because people who don't wake up can't go downstairs to the bookstore in the morning.

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.

She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy. She was poor and black, which means people say they saw it coming. Sunday

Puedes tomar prestadas las palabras que no encuentras.

Island used to offer free gift wrap at Christmas, and he figures that diaper changing and gift-wrapping must be related proficiencies.

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," A.J. had countered.

The way you are now, showing up. Showing up is what counts

most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

Leemos para saber que no estamos solos. Leemos porque estamos solos. Leemos y no estamos solos. No estamos solos.

My grandmother was married for fifty-two years, until my grandfather died. She used to say that a bad marriage was one that hadn't had enough time to get good again.

Apie žmog? galima sužinoti iš jo atsakymo ? užduot? klausim?: kokia tavo m?gstamiausia knyga?

No somos exactamente novelas. No somos exactamente relatos cortos. Al final somos obras completas.

A.J. has never changed a diaper in his life, though he is a modestly skilled gift wrapper. Back when Nic was alive, Island used to offer free gift wrap at Christmas, and he figures that diaper changing and gift-wrapping must be related proficiencies.

If this were Raymond Carver, you'd offer me some meager comfort and darkness would set in and all this would be over. But this . . . is feeling more like a novel to me after all. Emotionally, I mean.

Their happiness is not her unhappiness. Unless it is. What if there is only an equal ratio of happiness to unhappiness in the world at any given time? She should be nicer.