Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing a smiling rack of gingerbread men in an oven. Baking gingerbread men, or any cooking for that matter, is probably close to suicide for a snowman, Liz thinks. Why would a snowman voluntarily engage in an activity that would in all likelihood melt him? Can snowmen even eat? Liz glares at the box.

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby

I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.

It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.

That love is all there is; is all we know of love. It is enough; the freight should be proportioned to the groove." What is the "freight"? he wondered. What is the "groove"?

Maya knows that her mother left her in Island Books. But maybe that's what happens to all children at a certain age. Some children are left in shoe stores. And some children are left in toy 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.

I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it is true, but also a brain and also a soul. I've come to believe that we love with our brains as much as our hearts. Real Love is not just instinct, but intent...... From year to year, you may not always be the same Jane. This is perfectly normal. A Jane is many Janes in a lifetime.

The most important thing is finding someone you wish to play with.

The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures.

In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn

It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it's hard to tell.

Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?" She said, "I refused to be shamed." "How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming," she said.

No one will ever love me that much again.

My brain said no. But my heart!

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

That Woman is in love with her own grief.

It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption.

Sammy, we were together. You must know that. When I'm honest with myself, the most important parts of me were yours.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you're lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, and they don't remember those for very long.

Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.