372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

My brain said no. But my heart!

He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

It was a nice day, and I don't mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like winter was getting annoyed with itself and wanted it to be spring just as much as everyone else.

There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.

On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen...