Gabrielle Zevin Stories Quotations

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works.

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

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.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works