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Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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New York City
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
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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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I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.
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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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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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They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
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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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A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
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Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.
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He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.
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He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.
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