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I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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New York City
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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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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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
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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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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's a tragic fact to die in an accident
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That Woman is in love with her own grief.
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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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...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.
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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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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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Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.
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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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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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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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It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.
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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.
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But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.
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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.
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Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.
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