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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About Gabrielle Zevin

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

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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

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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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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Her life was beginning to make sense again, although she couldn't say that she was enjoying it. But her mind was clear, and her heart was not constantly as heavy. Only when she thought about him. But she knew that in time, she'd survive it. She had done it before and would again. Eventually the heart repairs.

—Danielle Steel in Miracle

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I wouldn't cry today. I wouldn't cry over him again. Not ever.

—Abbi Glines in Sometimes It Lasts

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Time heals. It's slow and it's painful but it works. Talking helps, going out with other people, seeing friends. She'll be like a book you read long ago. If you trust that if it's meant to be then it'll be again, and if it's not you will wake up one day and realize that you hadn't even thought of her once. And then you'll be free.

—Endless Love (2014)

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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

—William Congreve

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