02UndatedSomeday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
03UndatedBut then again, maybe 'I will' is nicer. It has the future in it. 'I do' just has the present.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
04UndatedThey should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
06UndatedIt 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.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
07UndatedSince i couldn't remember the "real" first time i'd lost my virginity, this would have become my de facto first time. I wanted a better story then: I did it with this boy who i wasn't very into and who had mysterious Gaterade breath; in his room decorated with sports equipment; at least he was nice enough to provide condoms and get his ancient, horny dog to leave us along.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
08UndatedMy life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
09UndatedEvery word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
11UndatedI know he's a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person, you have to forgive him sometimes.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
12UndatedIt’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
15UndatedWounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
16UndatedDespite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt, narcissistic, silly, and generally unpleasant people. He tries to avoid the ones who've written books he loves for fear that they will ruin their books for him.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
17UndatedBut I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who wrote it must be there. That you couldn't write such beautiful things and have such an ugly heart. But that is the truth. He was a beautiful writer and a terrible person.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
18UndatedAbove all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
19UndatedIn truth, she hadn't put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don't really need to ask themselves if they are happy or not, do they? They just are happy, she thinks.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
20UndatedThat spring, Amelia takes Maya to the drugstore and lets her choose any polish color she likes. "How do you pick?" Maya says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'm feeling," Amelia says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'd like to be feeling.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
21Undated...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
22UndatedI was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
23UndatedMy heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
24UndatedBut now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
