01UndatedI do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
03UndatedDaddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
04UndatedBut I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
05UndatedHi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
06UndatedShe doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
09UndatedCan I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?"She said, "I refused to be shamed.""How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming," she said.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
10UndatedThe difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
11UndatedWe 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 / quote ↗
12UndatedWhat if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
13UndatedI was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it."~Will LandsmanGabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
15UndatedOn the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
16UndatedEach period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
17UndatedI am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn’t? When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
18UndatedTheo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
19UndatedTragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
20UndatedTragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
21UndatedDid you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
22UndatedOn Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the adults in her life deemed terribly important. Since she had died, everything she was doing on Earth had seemed entirely meaningless. From Liz's point of view, the question of what her life would be was now definitively answered. The story of her life is short and pointless: There once was a girl who got hit by a car and died. The end.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
23UndatedLife used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
24UndatedI did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.Gabrielle Zevin / quote ↗
