372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

I chanced upon “The Luck of Roaring Camp” again a couple of years ago and I cried so much you’ll find that my Dover Thrift Edition is waterlogged. Methinks I have grown soft in my middle age. But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: 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.

Sometimes books don’t find us until the right time.

It wasn’t even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.

Just because something is a small problem doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be addressed. Small injustices conceal larger ones” -Anya.

There’s a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there’s no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

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

People, you’ll find, aren’t usually all good or bad. Sometimes they’re just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they’re mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn.

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.