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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: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Capable
Change
Women
Great
Even
Men
People
Span
Lifetime

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Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.
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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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...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.
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You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
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i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.
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But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?
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He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.
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I accept your condemnation, I said.
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Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know
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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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Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.
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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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I met a travler from an ancient land.
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When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
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For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.
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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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Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana. It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.
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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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Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?
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