372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

Imagine getting to be one of those people who actually gets paid to talk about literature.

You wouldn’t be abandoning me if you stopped to get a Band-Aid, you know.

The first way Maya approaches a book is to smell it.

Maya, we are what we love. We are that we love.

But the best parts of him were in his books. I suppose I could always read those if I missed him too much. I haven’t wanted to read one yet, though.

It is a well-known fact that hate shows up on your face once you’re forty.

Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know.

Why are you so quiet?” he asks. Because, you want to say, I am a person with an interior world that you know nothing about.

Evey day, there is less of me. Today I am thoughts without words. Tomorrow I will be a body without thoughts. And so it goes.