372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

Maya has chosen to be ring bearer because the job has more responsibility than flower girl. “If you lose a flower, you get another flower,” Maya reasons. “If you lose the ring, everyone is sad forever.

You don’t choose a book the book chooses you.

I’m allergic to sad memories. It’s the worst.

I believe when it is convenient for me to believe.

On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that’s not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

I’ve been a police officer for twenty years now and I’ll tell you, pretty much every bad thing is life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing.

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.

And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I’d thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.

I have so much paperwork. I’m afraid my paperwork has paperwork.