Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.
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Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin (born October 24, 1977, New York City) is an American author and screenwriter. 2Writing Zevin's first novel Elsewhere was published in 2005. It was nominated for a 2006 Quill award, won the Borders Original Voices Award, and was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Book Club. It also made the Carnegie long list. The book has been translated into over twenty languages. In 2007 Zevin was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for Conversations with Other Women which starred Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart and was also directed by Hans Canosa. In 2014, her eighth novel, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, debuted on the New York Times Best Seller List. 2Personal life Zevin graduated from Harvard University in 2000 with a degree in English & American Literature and lives in Los Angeles. Zevin's father is a Russian-Jewish American, and her mother is Korean. 2Bibliography 3Adults The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2014) The Hole We're In (2010) Margarettown (2005) 3Young Adults 4Standalones Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (novel) (2007) Elsewhere (2005) 4Anya Balanchine Series In the Age of Love and Chocolate (2013) Because It Is My Blood (2012) All These Things I've Done (2011) 2Note Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac has been made into a Japanese live-action movie of the same nam
Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.
It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn't live without him. Apparently I could.
I don’t like to feel so crazy about someone. I don’t like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.
It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
I don't like to feel so crazy about someone. I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.
Wounds are like water set to boil—they heal best left unwatched.
Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.
A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.
I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.
Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.
Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.
I can promise you books and conversations and all my heart.
The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.
We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.