Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . 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.

Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.

I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it is true, but also a brain and also a soul. I’ve come to believe that we love with our brains as much as our hearts. Real Love is not just instinct, but intent…… From year to year, you may not always be the same Jane. This is perfectly normal. A Jane is many Janes in a lifetime.

Saying you’re through with romance is like saying you’re done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

I’m allergic to sad memories. It’s the worst.

There’s a strange sort of quiet when you’re dying. It’s as if you’re in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn

Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.

As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can’t come close to containing it all.

It’s a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person’s grievances are. You don’t want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn’t already guessed.

Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched.

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don’t they? In the middle of the night, we’re all such children.