Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

As a form, the picture book has a similar elegance to the short story.

It's crazy," she said. "What is?" The connections, she thought. Or the lack of them. The discontinuity. How it was impossible to understand how a person got from point a to point b, even if you were that person and you had been there for every, every step. How there were unseen and mysterious forces beyond yourself.

Endings can be happy or sad, I don't care anymore as long as it's earned.

The universe, he felt, was just—or if not just, fair enough. It might take your mother, but it might give you someone else in return.

Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who like talking about books. I like paper. I like how it feels, and I like the feel of a book in my back pocket. I like how a new book smells, too." Ismay

Má»™t nÆ¡i tá»­ t? sao có th? thi?u ti?m sách ???c ch?, Izzie.

Sam fully got what she was trying to do, but he also believed that she would have to do more if she were to make games that people loved, not just games that people admired.

Ti?m sách h?p d?n má»™t s? ki?u ng??i. Anh thích nói chuy?n v? sách vá»›i nh?ng ng??i Ä'am mê nó. Anh thích nh?ng t? gi?y. Anh thích c?m xúc chúng Ä'em l?i, anh cÅ©ng thích có má»™t quy?n sách trong c?p n?a. Anh còn thích c? mùi sách má»›i.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time." "Not

Proto-postmodernist story of a habitual gambler and his bested frog. The plot isn't much, but it's worth reading because of the fun Twain has with narrative authority. (In reading Twain, I often suspect he is having more fun than I am.)

They are different, A.J. decides, 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.

When the baby sees Ismay, she bawls. "She must miss her mother," Ismay says. "Maybe I remind her of her mother?" A.J. nods, though he thinks the real cause is that his sister-in-law frightens the baby.

Love you," she repeats.

college friends. "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.

At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother.

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

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

Ta ??c sách ?? bi?t mình không cô Ä'Æ¡n. Ta ??c vì cô Ä'Æ¡n. Ta ??c và không còn cô Ä'Æ¡n. Ta không cô Ä'Æ¡n n?a.

Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.

Aveva trascorso parecchie ore con quell'uomo, negli ultimi sei anni. Avevano discusso sempre e solo di libri, ma cosa, in questa vita, è più personale dei libri?

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself. No

Có má»™t câu h?i ta Ä'ã nghÄ© r?t nhi?u, r?ng t?i sao vi?t v? nh?ng th? ta không thích l?i dá»… dàng hÆ¡n vi?t v? nh?ng gì ta yêu nh?.

past, nearly sideswiping them. "But if you'd been brave and come to me, I would have adopted her, Daniel. I would have forgiven you and I would have taken her in. I waited for you to say something, but you never did. I waited for days, then weeks, then years." "Ismay, you can believe what you want, but Marian Wallace

Sau t?t c?, bìa sách ph?i ??p. D?u ná»™i dung có hay ??n m?y, tôi cÅ©ng không th?a th?i gian dành cho m?y th? x?u xí