Gabrielle Zevin

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

It's a tragic fact to die in an accident

What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.

We read to know we__e not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.

Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?"She said, "I refused to be shamed.""How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming," she said.

Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind...

She doesn't recognize the number__one of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.

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

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.

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

You don't choose a book the book chooses you

I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

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.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn__ turned out to be.

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