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Gabrielle Zevin, born on October 24, 1977, is an American author whose works span across various genres, including novels, young adult literature, and adult fiction. She is admired for her unique narrative style and profound humanistic concerns.

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“But people—the ordinary, the decent and basically honest—couldn’t get through the day without that one indispensable bit of programming that allowed you to say one thing and mean, feel, even do, another.”

People Humanity Ordinary People Ordinary Life

Book:Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.”

People Writing Children Book Young Literature Wish Powerful Adults Children's Literature

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.”

People Should Believe Water Smart Phones Enormous Museums Protected Supplies Insidious

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“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.”

People Wells Littles Sometimes Whole Fall Bits Middle Little Bit Elsewhere

Book:Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.”

People Feels Heart Long Two Desirable Containing Two Lives

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.”

People Two Fall Mystery Falling In Love Elsewhere

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.”

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Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.”

People Knows Lying Gaps Love Each Other

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“Oh, all stories are the same, aren't they? Men and women fall in love or out of love. People are born; people die. It al ends happily or it all ends sadly, and the difference matters only to the people involved.”

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Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.”

People Men Capable Lifetime Great Change

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“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.”

People Moments Turns Difficult Loss Changed Elsewhere

Book:Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.”

People Said Daddy

Book:All These Things I've Done

Source: All These Things I've Done

“I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.”

People Crazy Available Insanity

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.”

People Ifs Thinking Made Eye Contact Truthful Being Truthful Eye Contact

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.”

People Mind States Earth State Of Mind Elsewhere

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know”

People Knows Wells Remember Attention Ghost Scare Scream Whispering

Book:Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.”

People Thinking Long Acquire Only Love

Book:The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel

Source: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel

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Born: October 24, 1977
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Quotes: 249

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