Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevinis an American author and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth24 October 1977
CountryUnited States of America
children night unbearable
Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.
real love-is would-be
if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.
curiosity defense enough
But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?
eye thinking people
Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.
beautiful mother kissing
My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.
world
He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.
deep-thought
It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.
beautiful thinking kind
It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.
thinking daddy outcomes
Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.
winning leaving black
Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.
should-have should
Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.
girl felt urges
I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.
believe daddy soul
Daddy once said, "If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul.
done goes-on way
The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.