Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both. Gabrielle Zevin More Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin More Quotes From Gabrielle Zevin On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self. Gabrielle Zevin best think reading self My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me. Gabrielle Zevin grandparents books me time I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally. Gabrielle Zevin you mind book people We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works Gabrielle Zevin novel ends stories