Someday we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better.

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

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

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

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

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

—Lillian Gordy Carter

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

—Bob Hope

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

—Sydney J. Harris

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

—Robert Quillen

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

—J. B. Priestley