People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

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About Gabrielle Zevin

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Gabrielle Zevin (born October 24, 1977) is an American author and screenwriter.

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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?

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

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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.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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I don’t like to feel so crazy about someone. I don’t like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

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It’s sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

—Gabrielle Zevin in All These Things I’ve Done

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Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

—Friedrich Schiller

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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

—Anatole France

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Sometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.

—Aurora Rose Reynolds in Assumption

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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

—John D. Rockefeller

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Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

—Rita Mae Brown

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