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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

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Stories
Dull
Milliseconds
Love
Miles
Eons
Fast
Chisel
Mark
Chisels
Whose
Pencil
Side
Pencils
Sides
Marks
Written
Barely
Millimeters

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