Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevinis an American author and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth24 October 1977
CountryUnited States of America
bell electric erase ibm keys liked sounds toy typewriter visiting
I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
asks hobbies people takes
People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
stupid thinking forever
Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?
bookstores
A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.
felt jew mixed
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
men people lifetime
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.
violence should begets
Violence should not always beget more violence.
forgive-me forgiving done
I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.
pain loving-someone loving-you
There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.
i-like-you love-you mean
Liz, I like you very much," he says. "Oh," she says, "I like you very much, too!" Owen is not sure if she means "O" for Owen, or just plan "Oh." He is not sure what difference it would make in either case. He feels the needs to clarify. "When I said 'I like you very much,' I actually meant 'I love you.'" "O," she says, "I actually meant the same thing." She closes the car door behind her. "Well," he says to himself, driving back to his apartment, "isn't that something?
real believe heart
I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it is true, but also a brain and also a soul. I've come to believe that we love with our brains as much as our hearts. Real Love is not just instinct, but intent...... From year to year, you may not always be the same Jane. This is perfectly normal. A Jane is many Janes in a lifetime.
way certain knows
In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.
falling-in-love men differences
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.
lying people gaps
It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.