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.

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

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

—Gabrielle Zevin in All These Things I’ve Done

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

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

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

—George Bernard Shaw

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

—Kurt Vonnegut

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

—Anne Frank

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

—H. L. Mencken

I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle