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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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New York City
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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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Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.
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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 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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What were you like, I asked her. we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?
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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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They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
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It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.
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Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana. It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.
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Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.
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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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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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It's a tragic fact to die in an accident
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Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.
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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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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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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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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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...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.
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