Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Gabrielle Zevin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Sort
Glass
Getting
Glasses
Keep
Quiet
Dying
Wall
Room
Rooms
Thicker
Strange
Walls
More quotes by Gabrielle Zevin
Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.
Gabrielle Zevin
I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it. ~Will Landsman
Gabrielle Zevin
Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.
Gabrielle Zevin
I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.
Gabrielle Zevin
It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.
Gabrielle Zevin
I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.
Gabrielle Zevin
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.
Gabrielle Zevin
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.
Gabrielle Zevin
No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.
Gabrielle Zevin
The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, Who are you, my little one? And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.
Gabrielle Zevin
As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.
Gabrielle Zevin
i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.
Gabrielle Zevin
It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.
Gabrielle Zevin
It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
Gabrielle Zevin
I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.
Gabrielle Zevin
What were you like, I asked her. we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?
Gabrielle Zevin
Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.
Gabrielle Zevin
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
A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
Gabrielle Zevin
What are you reading? Owen asks. Charlotte's Web, Liz says. It's really sad. One of the main characters just died. You ought to read the book from end to beginning, Owen jokes. That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.
Gabrielle Zevin