372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.

In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.

Oh, all stories are the same, aren't they? Men and women fall in love or out of love. People are born; people die. It al ends happily or it all ends sadly, and the difference matters only to the people involved.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.