Gabrielle Zevin Quotes - Page 2

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.
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They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?
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It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.
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If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.
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There's a difference between being alive and living.
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All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too.
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It's a tragic fact to die in an accident
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Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.
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Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.
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...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.
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Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop
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In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.
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A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
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There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.
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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.
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You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of your teachers, and eventually you'll forget those, too. You forget your junior class schedule and where you used to sit and your best friend's home phone number and the lyrics to that song you must have played a million times. For me, it was something by Simon & Garfunkel. Who knows what it will be for you? And eventually, but slowly, oh so slowly, you forget your humiliations-even the ones that seemed indelible just fade away. You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. Who went to a good college. Who threw the best parties Who could get you pot. You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They're the last to go. And then once you've forgotten enough, you love someone else.
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Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.
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