372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?

On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the adults in her life deemed terribly important. Since she had died, everything she was doing on Earth had seemed entirely meaningless. From Liz's point of view, the question of what her life would be was now definitively answered. The story of her life is short and pointless: There once was a girl who got hit by a car and died. The end.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

There's a difference between being alive and living.

Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt, narcissistic, silly, and generally unpleasant people. He tries to avoid the ones who've written books he loves for fear that they will ruin their books for him.

That spring, Amelia takes Maya to the drugstore and lets her choose any polish color she likes. "How do you pick?" Maya says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'm feeling," Amelia says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'd like to be feeling.

There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

Perché piangi?""Stavo leggendo.