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01Undated

A.J. watches Maya in her pink party dress, and he feels a vaguely familiar, slightly intolerable bubbling inside of him. He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother.

Gabrielle Zevin / quote

02Undated

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

Gabrielle Zevin / quote

03Undated

Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren't they much more common?

Gabrielle Zevin / quote

04Undated

There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.

Gabrielle Zevin / quote

05Undated

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?

Gabrielle Zevin / quote