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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
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He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.
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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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A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby
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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.
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i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.
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It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
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But then again maybe I will is nicer. It has a future in it.
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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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Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.
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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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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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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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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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It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
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Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.
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Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana. It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.
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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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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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