372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.

Embeth looked at the return address. It was from her most faithful friend, Shipment Fulfillment Center.

I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quite a kind of song.

If you’re honest with yourself, one of the reasons you moved into an off-campus apartment and didn’t get any roommates is because you hoped something like this would happen. You set the stage, and you knew the player wouldn’t be able to resist the call of the theater.

Most people’s problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life.

There’s something kind of heroic about being a bookseller.

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn’t love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you’re on your way to do something else.