Gabrielle Zevin (born October 24, 1977, New York City) is an American author and screenwriter.
It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.
Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.
In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.
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.
Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.
It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.
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.
Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.
It's a tragic fact to die in an accident
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.
i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.
I don't believe in writer's block.
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?
The words you can't find, you borrow.
As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.
"I accept your condemnation," I said.