Quote

But then again maybe I will is nicer. It has a future in it.

Gabrielle Zevin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Nicer
Maybe
Future

More quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

Image
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
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.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
It's a tragic fact to die in an accident
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
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.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
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.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
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.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
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.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
That Woman is in love with her own grief.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
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.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.
Gabrielle Zevin
Image
if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.
Gabrielle Zevin