I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity. Gabrielle Zevin More Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin More Quotes From Gabrielle Zevin You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? Gabrielle Zevin answers book needs I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart. Gabrielle Zevin heart book promise But 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 everyday life believe 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. Gabrielle Zevin long people thinking On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess. Gabrielle Zevin wish together beautiful It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could. Gabrielle Zevin moving-on couple letting-go In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end. Gabrielle Zevin family-friends used matter 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. Gabrielle Zevin controversial-topics fighting two 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. Gabrielle Zevin crazy insanity people Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop Gabrielle Zevin stories sides dull It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway. Gabrielle Zevin mean way art No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do. Gabrielle Zevin elsewhere love-is needs I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork. Gabrielle Zevin paperwork Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched. Gabrielle Zevin get-well heal water A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore. Gabrielle Zevin bookstores ...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them. Gabrielle Zevin girl sound lying Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity. Gabrielle Zevin gravity diving leap-of-faith Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered. Gabrielle Zevin daddy said people Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together. Gabrielle Zevin car real together They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. Gabrielle Zevin heartbroken heartbreak travel
