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?

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

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

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

—Emily Dickinson

Let there be such oneness between us that when one cries, the other tastes salt.

—Rosabelle Believe

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

—Markus Zusak in The Book Thief

Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too.

—Lemony Snicket in The Blank Book