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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

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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New York City
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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.
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What were you like, I asked her. we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?
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It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.
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My brain said no. But my heart!
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I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.
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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.
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That Woman is in love with her own grief.
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Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.
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The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.
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Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.
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The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, Who are you, my little one? And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.
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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.
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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.
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You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.
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