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

Quotes from Gabrielle Zevin

Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realize all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travelers, if that makes any sense.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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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.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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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.

—Gabrielle Zevin in In the Age of Love and Chocolate

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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

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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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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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 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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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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Lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

—Gabrielle Zevin in All These Things I’ve Done

Books

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