372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

The rub of the Choose Your Own Adventure stories is that if you don’t make a few bad choices, the story will be terribly boring. If you do everything right and you’re always good, the story will be very short.

It is lucky, she thinks, that we don’t feel all the love inside us every moment. We couldn’t breathe or walk or eat. It is lucky that it just flares up every now and again then resolves itself into a manageable dormancy.

From Nic’s point of view, her older sister had been a primer on how not to live her life.

I do not know much about boys, but I think superior research skills would be a Very Good Thing to have in a boyfriend.

Daddy once said, “If you don’t know what you believe, Annie, you’ll be a lost soul.

A woman should never please other people at the expense of pleasing herself.

I longed for Mum in the most primitive way.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you’re the only person in the room.

In truth, she hadn’t put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don’t really need to ask themselves if they are happy or not, do they? They just are happy, she thinks.