372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

No one, not even the rain has such soft hands.

Last year, that Fischer idiot threw a black-and-white cookie at me, and I started to wonder if every principal exited this school with a ceremonial baked good fling.

Amelia’s mother had died two years ago, and though their relationship had been challenging at times, she misses her with an unexpected ferocity. For instance, until her death, her mother had sent her new underwear in the mail every other month. Amelia had not once had to buy underwear her whole life. Recently, she had found herself standing in the lingerie department at TJ Maxx, and as she went through the panty bin, she had begun to cry: No one will ever love me that much again.

If this were a novel, I’d stop reading right now. I’d throw it across the room.

She dates some – women and men. She has slipped into bisexuality without needing to make a big thing about it. She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

They didn’t put a scarlet letter on her chest, but they didn’t need to. That’s what the Internet is for.

I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told myself.

My point is, it’s tempting,” she said. “It is certainly tempting to continue on with something because it has already begun.

The one real fight they’d ever had was over David Foster Wallace.