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...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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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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There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.
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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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You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
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My brain said no. But my heart!
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I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.
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Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.
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It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
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Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.
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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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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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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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That Woman is in love with her own grief.
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Oh, says Owen, but I would have, you know. I know you would have, says Liz, and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
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