Gabrielle Zevin, All These Things I've Done
10 quotes
"All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too."
"There's a difference between being alive and living."
"My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart."
"...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them."
"Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up."
"Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences."
"On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study."
"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."
"Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road."
"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."