372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

I met a travler from an ancient land.

A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.

Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.

I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works.