372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

The day my father shook my hand, I knew I was a writer.

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

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don’t they? In the middle of the night, we’re all such children.

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

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it’s the best available option at the time.

You call your mother. You’re in a panic, but as soon as your mother answers the phone, you relax. When your mother is worrying about something, it means that you won’t have to.

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.

It’s a tragic fact to die in an accident.

The kind of people who spend their lives as permanent guests on a futon are not the kind of people you want to know.