Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

Los escritores no se acuerdan de todo lo que escriben. Sería imposible.

an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.

She is thirty-one years old and she thinks she should have met someone by now.

I have thoughts about this. Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

Twenty years ago, when she first started doing Survivor Day, it was easy, she says, but now, who's left? Maybe you survive cancer, maybe you survive the Holocaust, but life'll get you every time.

He pats you on the shoulder. "We're lucky," he said. "We got to have this time, and we didn't ruin anyone's life in the process. It doesn't feel like it right now, but one day, you'll look back and think this was a very good outcome." An outcome, you think. When I was young, I had this affair, and wow, what an outcome!

Katkad knjigama treba vremena da nas prona?u.

She is at least four inches taller than A.J. "But we have a meeting.

The Late Bloomer by Leon Friedman. The book is familiar to A.J., but he's not sure why. He opens the galley and a business card falls out: amelia loman, knightley press. Yes, he remembers now. Of course, he has encountered Amelia Loman in the years since that awkward first meeting.

Love you, Maya says. Yes, she keeps saying that, AJ says. I wonder about giving love that hasn't yet been earned but honestly, I think it's the influence of that insidious Elmo. He loves everyone, ya know?

Maya ha decidido ser la portadora de los anillos porque la tarea implica más responsabilidad que la de llevar las flores. —Si pierdes una flor, coges otra —razona—. Si pierdes un anillo, todo el mundo se queda triste para siempre. Quien lleva los anillos tiene mucho más poder. —Hablas como Gollum —le dice A.J. —¿Quién es Gollum? —pregunta Maya. —Un bicho raro que le gusta a tu padre.

A.J. kisses his daughter on the forehead. He is delighted to have produced such a fantastic nerd.

Prendi in prestito le parole che non riesci a trovare. Leggiamo per sapere che non siamo soli. Leggiamo perché siamo soli. Leggiamo e non ci sentiamo soli. Non ci sentiamo soli.

You'll meet someone. I did." "Fuck you. I like you. I'm used to you. You are the one, you asshole. I can't meet someone new." He

Sometimes, I would be in so much pain. The only thing that kept me from wanting to die was the fact that I could leave my body and be in a body that worked perfectly for a while—better than perfectly, actually—with a set of problems that were not my own.

What a bother. It's completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive his business to ruin. The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.

Do people like greeting cards?" "Yes, I believe they do. There are numerous heads of cabbage and birthdays to acknowledge.

love, he thinks. What a bother. It's completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive his business to ruin. The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.

Es menos satisfactorio un giro si se ve venir? ¿Un giro que no podemos prevenir es síntoma de mala construcción? Hay que plantearse estas cosas al escribir.

but . . . Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

Lambiase is recently divorced. He had married his high school sweetheart, so it took him a long time to realize that she was not, in fact, a sweetheart or a very nice person at all.

He was a good boyfriend to her as, in some universe elsewhere, he might have been to me.

If you are a person who has always been liked, it is hard to understand why you have, without changing a thing about yourself, suddenly become unlikable. It is equally difficult to turn the tide in your favor when those around you find you to be deficient.

Y si en un momento dado hubiese la misma proporción de felicidad e infelicidad en el mundo?