372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?

I 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 Landsman

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

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 around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life