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People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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New York City
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Women
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if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.
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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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The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.
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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
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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.
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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.
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He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.
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I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.
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That Woman is in love with her own grief.
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Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.
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Hi there, squeaked a precocious little voice, you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.
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It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.
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As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.
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People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.
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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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I accept your condemnation, I said.
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