Gabrielle Zevin Girl Quotations

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, "Who are you, my little one?" And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.

And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

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 know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.