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Gabrielle Zevin
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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
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Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?
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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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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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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.
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A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
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Oh, says Owen, but I would have, you know. I know you would have, says Liz, and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
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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.
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