Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
13 quotes
"I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories."
"It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway."
"But then again, maybe 'I will' is nicer. It has the future in it. 'I do' just has the present."
"It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell."
"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."
"Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose."
"I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be."
"My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much."
"But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)"
"It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could."
"Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone."
"I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it."~Will Landsman"
"Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone."