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Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.
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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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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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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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I met a travler from an ancient land.
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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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Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.
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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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A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
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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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He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.
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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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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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He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.
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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 a tragic fact to die in an accident
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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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I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.
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Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana. It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.
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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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