Explore Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

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

Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.

Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?

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

That Woman is in love with her own grief.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

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.

I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.

The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

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.

Liz, I like you very much," he says. "Oh," she says, "I like you very much, too!" Owen is not sure if she means "O" for Owen, or just plan "Oh." He is not sure what difference it would make in either case. He feels the needs to clarify. "When I said 'I like you very much,' I actually meant 'I love you.'" "O," she says, "I actually meant the same thing." She closes the car door behind her. "Well," he says to himself, driving back to his apartment, "isn't that something?

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

Violence should not always beget more violence.

Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.

"I shouldn't have done that," I said. _x000D_That was when I kissed him again. _x000D_May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.

My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.