Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

In high school, you read The Scarlet Letter, and it occurs to you that this is what the Internet is like.

El cuerpo no sintió dolor pero solo porque el cuerpo no estaba.

What do you like?" she asks. "Everything else," he says. "I will also admit to an occasional weakness for short-story collections. Customers never want to buy them though.

They had only discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest.

É o medo secreto de que não é possível sermos amados o que nos isola (...) mas é apenas porque estamos isolados que pensamos não sermos amáveis. E certo dia, não se sabe quando, ele, ou ela, aliás, estará lá. Será amado porque, pela primeira vez na vida, realmente não estará solitário. Terá escolhido não estar solitário.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room. —A.J.F.

All stories—anecdotes, cave paintings, blog posts, book reviews, news articles, songs, poems—are attempts to explain the world to each other and for ourselves.

Que algo sea bueno o aceptado universalmente no es motivo suficiente para rechazarlo.

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

You try not to consider what it means that you are watching romantic comedies for occupational advice.

Because if you really want to die, I can put you under psychiatric observation." "I don't want to die," A.J. says after a bit. "I just find it difficult to be here all the time. Do you think I'm crazy?

Someone stole Tamerlane," A.J. says. "What's Tamerlane?" "It's a book. It's a very valuable book.

stores. And some children are left in sandwich shops. And your whole life is determined by what store you get left in. She does not want to live in the sandwich shop.

He looked like a charcoal drawing of a man. In death, he was blacks and whites.

Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.

Well, I'm warning you. I could be a bad book with a good jacket.

Where is room for love? All you have is fear and a to-do list.

you shouldn't go throwing around your love so easily.

She is thirty-one years old and she thinks she should have met someone by now. And yet . . . Amelia the bright-sider believes it is better to be alone than to be with someone who doesn't share your sensibilities and interests. (It is, right?)

that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

Dallas–Fort Worth airport to Grapevine, Texas

Yo podría ser un mal libro con una cubierta bonita [...]. —Nada de eso. Llevo años viéndote en la estantería. He leído la sinopsis y las citas de la contraportada.

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