Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevinis an American author and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth24 October 1977
CountryUnited States of America
describing people physical somebody
I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.
amazingly famous huge jonathan literary
I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.
diving leap-of-faith plus
Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.
daddy people said
Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.
paperwork
I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.
dull sides stories
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
forgive-me forgiving done
I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.
moments that-moment ifs
Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.
deep-thought
It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.
accepting condemnation said
"I accept your condemnation," I said.
over-you different too-much
Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realise all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travellers, if that makes any sense.
curiosity defense enough
But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?
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.
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.