“ But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222) 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. 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 my… 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 the… 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,… 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… 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 a… Gabrielle Zevin
“ It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed. Gabrielle Zevin
“ Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give. 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 wh… 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
