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Gabrielle Zevin ist eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Drehbuchautorin.

Zevin absolvierte Harvard. Ihr erstes Buch Elsewhere erregte Aufsehen bei der Kritik und wurde in 16 Sprachen übersetzt, ihr Drehbuch Conversations with Other Women wurde für die Independent Spirit Awards 2007 nominiert. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Oktober 1977  •  Andere Namen گابریل زوین
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“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.”

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Gabrielle Zevin

Quelle: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.”

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Gabrielle Zevin buch Elsewhere

Quelle: Elsewhere

“What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?”

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Gabrielle Zevin buch Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Quelle: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.”

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Gabrielle Zevin

Quelle: All These Things I've Done

“There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.”

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Gabrielle Zevin buch Elsewhere

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“Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.”

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Gabrielle Zevin

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“Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.”

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“My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.”

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Gabrielle Zevin buch Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Quelle: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.”

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Quelle: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.”

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Gabrielle Zevin buch Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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

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Gabrielle Zevin buch Elsewhere

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

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Gabrielle Zevin

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“And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.”

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Gabrielle Zevin buch Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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“In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.”

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Gabrielle Zevin

“The words you can't find, you borrow.”

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Gabrielle Zevin

Quelle: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.”

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Gabrielle Zevin

Quelle: All These Things I've Done

“The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.

No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.”

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Gabrielle Zevin

Quelle: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?”

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Gabrielle Zevin

Quelle: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy.”

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Gabrielle Zevin

Quelle: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.”

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Quelle: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Love you,” Maya says. “Yes, she keeps saying that,” A. J. says. “I warned her about giving love that hasn’t yet been earned, but honestly, I think it’s the influence of that insidious Elmo. He loves everyone, you know?”

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“I've been a police officer for twenty years now and I'll tell you, pretty much every bad thing is life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing.”

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“Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.”

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Gabrielle Zevin buch Elsewhere

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“If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.”

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Gabrielle Zevin buch Elsewhere

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“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.”

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Gabrielle Zevin

Quelle: All These Things I've Done

“Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?”

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Quelle: All These Things I've Done

“On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen…”

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