Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

“To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt.”

“This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently.”

“Next time, we fail better.”

“To play requires trust and love.”

“It was as if being a woman was a disease that you didn’t wish to catch. As long as you didn’t associate with the other women, you could imply to the majority, the men: I’m not like those other ones.”

″...life is very long, unless it is not.”

“How many times can you look at something and know that everyone around you is seeing the same thing or at the very least that their brains and eyes are responding to the same phenomenon? How much proof do you ever have that we’re all in the same world?”

“SADIE MIRANDA GREEN, YOU HAVE DIED OF DYSENTERY.”

“I’m always seeing the world with magic eyes.”

“Time was mathematically explicable; it was the heart-the part of the brain represented by the heart- that was the mystery.”