372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.

Showing up is what counts.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

...but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

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

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

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?

True conviction is believing something to be right even after it becomes disadvantageous to you.

She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.