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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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New York City
New York
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He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.
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My brain said no. But my heart!
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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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In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.
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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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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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I accept your condemnation, I said.
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Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.
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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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I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know. 'Lass'? Where did that come from? I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.
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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.
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Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.
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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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