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

Gabrielle Zevin

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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Novelist
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New York City
New York
Promise
Conversation
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Heart

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I accept your condemnation, I said.
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He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.
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i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.
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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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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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Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.
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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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