372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

The second man I meet is Andrew, and he has dirty fingernails so I can't notice if he is nice or not. I can even eat my brown sugar and butter crêpes because, oy gevalt, I'm so distracted by these fingernails. I mean, what was he doing before he came on this date? Competitive gardening? Burying the last woman he dated?

Every book is a world.

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes, you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realize all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travelers.

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

It's a tragic fact to die in an accident