Gabrielle Zevin Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. ...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them. All These Things I've Done

2. If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

3. Samson, you are a lucky boy,' Don Hyun said to Sam in a perfectly clear voice. 'You have had tragedy, yes, but you have had many good friends as well. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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

5. 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. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

6. The most successful people are also the most able to change their mindsets. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

7. You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of your teachers, and eventually you'll forget those, too. You forget your junior class schedule and where you used to sit and your best friend's home phone number and the lyrics to that song you must have played a million times. For me, it was something by Simon & Garfunkel. Who knows what it will be for you? And eventually, but slowly, oh so slowly, you forget your humiliations-even the ones that seemed indelible just fade away. You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. Who went to a good college. Who threw the best parties Who could get you pot. 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. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

8. How much of your life had been happenstance? How much of your life had been a roll of the big polyhedral die in the sky? But then, weren’t all lives that way? Who could say, in the end, that they had chosen any of it? Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

9. It was never worth worrying about someone you didn’t love. And it wasn’t love if you didn’t worry. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

10. 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. Elsewhere

11. Limitations are style if you make them so. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

12. Maybe this is selfish, but I don’t want to love more than I am loved. And I don’t want to be with someone who loves something or someone more than me. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

13. Pada akhirnya, kita adalah kumpulan karya.

14. There's a difference between being alive and living. All These Things I've Done

15. This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

16. Time was mathematically explicable; it was the heart—the part of the brain represented by the heart—that was the mystery. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

17. What is a game?' Marx said. 'It is tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

18. Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow