372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.

You love being Ruby’s mother, but loving Ruby does not stop you from wanting things for yourself.

We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

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.

The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there’s nothing anyone can do or say. It’s broken.

Intimacy doesn’t have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

The words you can’t find, you borrow.

Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren’t.