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.

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

But like everything else, love changed.

—Ann Brashares in The Last Summer

The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.

—Veronica Roth in Insurgent

When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you.

—Jay Crownover in Jet

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

—Martin Luther King Jr.