Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevinis an American author and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth24 October 1977
CountryUnited States of America
school writing years
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
believe kids
You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you
grief
That Woman is in love with her own grief.
memories sad-memories worst
I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.
girl moving used
Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.
sorry self daddy
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.
daddy tragedy bumps
Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.
creating daddy isms
It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.
love-is daddy littles
Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.
knowing liz knows
Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
sports dog real
Since i couldn't remember the "real" first time i'd lost my virginity, this would have become my de facto first time. I wanted a better story then: I did it with this boy who i wasn't very into and who had mysterious Gaterade breath; in his room decorated with sports equipment; at least he was nice enough to provide condoms and get his ancient, horny dog to leave us along.
thinking opposites roots
There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?
romance done littles
Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.
couple wall past
The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.