372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

What suit jacket would say “supportive,” “feminist,” “unbroken,” “optimistic”? What one effing suit jacket could possibly accomplish that?

Pregnant, she looked like a pretty Gollum.

But you, you can never do anything hard. And I let you be that way.

Living, it seemed to her, was the acquiring of bad habits. Dying, the process of rescinding them.

The problem with meeting new people is not that you might not like them, but that you will like them too much.

Anticipating the worst doesn’t provide insurance from the worst happening,” Mimmy says.

You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.

If Jenny were a book, she would be a paperback just out of the box – no dog ears, no waterlogging, no creases in her spine.

An “online presence” is “all the true things and all the lies about a person on the Internet.