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Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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New York City
New York
Faith
Diving
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I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.
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Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.
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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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Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana. It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.
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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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You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you
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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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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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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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No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.
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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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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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Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.
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Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.
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...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.
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My brain said no. But my heart!
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