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. …

- Gabrielle Zevin

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 …

- Gabrielle Zevin

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.

- Gabrielle Zevin

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

- Gabrielle Zevin

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

- Gabrielle Zevin

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I…

- Gabrielle Zevin

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good …

- Gabrielle Zevin

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

- Gabrielle Zevin

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

- Gabrielle Zevin