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Quotes About Stories

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
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.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren't they much more common?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You know very well that I was in Germany as a child, and you have heard the stories, so I won't tell them to you again. But I can tell you that the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend." "I hadn't thought of it that way," Sadie said. Freda stroked Sadie's hand. "Mine Sadie. This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Condividere un libro è il modo migliore per aprire il nostro cuore e raccontare qualcosa di noi
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a novel steeped in nostalgia and innovation that follows three friends as they come of age in the world of video games, creating stories and worlds that enhance, redefine, and preserve their rich bonds while attempting to defy the limits of mortality.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Methinks I have grown soft in my middle age. But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
In the end, we are collected works. 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. No
~ Gabrielle Zevin
my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life. —
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works. 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.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Mes nesame kaip romanai. Ir ne kaip apsakymai. Gal? gale esame literat?ros k?rini? rinktin?.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa... but me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely th right time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
No somos exactamente novelas. No somos exactamente relatos cortos. Al final somos obras completas.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The words you can't find, you borrow. 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. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works." ? Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But have you read any short stories?" A.J. asked. "Maybe in school. Fairy tales. Or, um, The Red Pony? I think I was supposed to read The Red Pony." "That is a novella," A.J. said.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Ha leído lo suficiente para saber que no hay antología en que todas las historias sean perfectas. Unas dan en el clavo. Otras fallan. Con suerte, hay una excepcional. De todos modos, al final la gente solo se acuerda de las excepcionales, y no durante mucho tiempo.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Es preciso encontrar las historias en el momento adecuado de nuestra vida. Recuerda: las cosas que nos emocionan a los veinte no tienen por qué ser las mismas que nos emocionarán a los cuarenta, y viceversa. Esto es así por lo que respecta a los libros y también a la vida.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life. —
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We are not quite novels...in the end we are collected works.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
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.
~ Gabrielle Zevin