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Gabrielle Zevin Quotes: 7

  • Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.

    Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
  • Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

    Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
  • They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

    The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
  • A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

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

    The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
  • 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.

  • When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.