Gabrielle Zevin
Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.Collection: School
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.Collection: Heart
You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe youCollection: Believe
In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.Collection: Matter
Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?Collection: Dog
When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.Collection: Book
I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.Collection: Crazy
Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?Collection: Stupid
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantopCollection: Stories
Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.Collection: Real
Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?Collection: Forever
In you, I found infinity. In you, I was rebornCollection: Infinity
The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.Collection: Sweet
I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it." ~Will LandsmanCollection: Blow
A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabbyCollection: Eight
I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.Collection: Memories
Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.Collection: Chocolate
It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.Collection: Needs
A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.Collection: Bookstores
The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.Collection: Goes On
There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.Collection: Pain
Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.Collection: Daddy
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 knowCollection: People
It was a nice day, and I don't mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like winter was getting annoyed with itself and wanted it to be spring just as much as everyone else.Collection: Spring
On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.Collection: Thinking
If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.Collection: Forgiving
I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.Collection: Love You
It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.Collection: Lying
Since i couldn't remember the "real" first time i'd lost my virginity, this would have become my de facto first time. I wanted a better story then: I did it with this boy who i wasn't very into and who had mysterious Gaterade breath; in his room decorated with sports equipment; at least he was nice enough to provide condoms and get his ancient, horny dog to leave us along.Collection: Sports
Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.Collection: Girl
A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.Collection: Quality
if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.Collection: Real
Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.Collection: Get Well
Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.Collection: Book
There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Real
Liz, I like you very much," he says. "Oh," she says, "I like you very much, too!" Owen is not sure if she means "O" for Owen, or just plan "Oh." He is not sure what difference it would make in either case. He feels the needs to clarify. "When I said 'I like you very much,' I actually meant 'I love you.'" "O," she says, "I actually meant the same thing." She closes the car door behind her. "Well," he says to himself, driving back to his apartment, "isn't that something?Collection: I Like You
You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.Collection: Children
He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.Collection: World
Violence should not always beget more violence.Collection: Violence
The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.Collection: Broken
The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.Collection: Wall
That Woman is in love with her own grief.Collection: Grief
Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.Collection: Winning
I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.Collection: Thinking
A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.Collection: Hate
He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.Collection: Sexy
It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.Collection: Hate
i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.Collection: Want