110+ Gabrielle Zevin Quotes On Friendship, Education And Order

Gabrielle Zevin is an American author of young adult fiction, non-fiction and adult fiction. She is best known for her young adult novels, including The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Elsewhere and All These Things I've Done. Zevin has won numerous awards for her work, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Gabrielle Zevin on love, life, friendship.

Top 10 Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

1. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
2. Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?
3. Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.
4. 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.
5. They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
6. Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.
7. A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.
8. I don't believe in writer's block.
9. Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
10. Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

Gabrielle Zevin Short Quotes

• I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.
• Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.
• I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.
• Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.
• "I accept your condemnation," I said.
• Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.
• I met a travler from an ancient land.
• We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works
• It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.
• You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you

Gabrielle Zevin Quotes About Love

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

The only love she inspires is the canine kind. — Gabrielle Zevin

That Woman is in love with her own grief. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway? — Gabrielle Zevin

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on. — Gabrielle Zevin

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap. — Gabrielle Zevin

Oh, all stories are the same, aren't they? Men and women fall in love or out of love. People are born; people die. It al ends happily or it all ends sadly, and the difference matters only to the people involved. — Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin Quotes About Life

But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it? — Gabrielle Zevin

On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess. — Gabrielle Zevin

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life — Gabrielle Zevin

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up. — Gabrielle Zevin

Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too. — Gabrielle Zevin

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know. — Gabrielle Zevin

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length. — Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

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 shabby — Gabrielle Zevin

"I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done. — Gabrielle Zevin

Daddy once said, "If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul. — Gabrielle Zevin

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums. — Gabrielle Zevin

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could. — 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

Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing a smiling rack of gingerbread men in an oven. Baking gingerbread men, or any cooking for that matter, is probably close to suicide for a snowman, Liz thinks. Why would a snowman voluntarily engage in an activity that would in all likelihood melt him? Can snowmen even eat? Liz glares at the box. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

Violence should not always beget more violence. — Gabrielle Zevin

The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken. — Gabrielle Zevin

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? — Gabrielle Zevin

In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you. — Gabrielle Zevin

And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore. — Gabrielle Zevin

It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though. — Gabrielle Zevin

Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love. — Gabrielle Zevin

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending. — Gabrielle Zevin

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity. — Gabrielle Zevin

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender. — Gabrielle Zevin

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. — Gabrielle Zevin

Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — 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

He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world. — Gabrielle Zevin

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do. — Gabrielle Zevin

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't. — Gabrielle Zevin

Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good. — Gabrielle Zevin

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking. — Gabrielle Zevin

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room. — Gabrielle Zevin

I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that. — Gabrielle Zevin

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to? — Gabrielle Zevin

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature. — Gabrielle Zevin

I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst. — 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? — Gabrielle Zevin

And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow. — Gabrielle Zevin

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it. — Gabrielle Zevin

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 Landsman — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

The words you can't find, you borrow. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets. — Gabrielle Zevin

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known. — Gabrielle Zevin

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried. — 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. — Gabrielle Zevin

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 mountiantop — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone. — Gabrielle Zevin

My brain said no. But my heart! — Gabrielle Zevin

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 know — Gabrielle Zevin

In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell. — Gabrielle Zevin

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

My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry. — Gabrielle Zevin

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. — Gabrielle Zevin

Life Lessons by Gabrielle Zevin

1. Gabrielle Zevin teaches us to be brave and take risks, even when it can be difficult or uncomfortable.
2. She also shows us the importance of being open to different perspectives and understanding the power of storytelling.
3. Finally, she emphasizes the importance of resilience and finding joy in life, even in the face of adversity.