Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt, narcissistic, silly, and generally unpleasant people. He tries to avoid the ones who've written books he loves for fear that they will ruin their books for him. Gabrielle Zevin
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More Quotes By Gabrielle Zevin
  1. Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink...
  2. You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of...
  3. I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.
  4. There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.
  5. A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
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