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Category: Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn’t show too much.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

boys, heartbreak

Gabrielle Zevin

…lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

Gabrielle Zevin

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.

feelings, nail-polish

Gabrielle Zevin

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.

emotion, happy, life, realisation, sad

Gabrielle Zevin

Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would’ve had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.

Gabrielle Zevin

But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who wrote it must be there. That you couldn’t write such beautiful things and have such an ugly heart. But that is the truth. He was a beautiful writer and a terrible person.

authors, disappointment, heartbreak, writers

Gabrielle Zevin

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.

authors, humorous

Gabrielle Zevin

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

healing, wounds

Gabrielle Zevin

There’s the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there’s the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don’t think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don’t think much about the branches, but all the time, they’re connected by the trunk, you know?

afterlife, tree

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Gabrielle Zevin

Oh yes, it’s very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren’t they much more common?

humour, love, starcrossed-lovers, unrequited-love