Gabrielle Zevin People Quotations

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.

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.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

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.

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know

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.

Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.