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A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.Gabrielle Zevin
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Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.Gabrielle Zevin
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Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.Gabrielle Zevin
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It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.Gabrielle Zevin
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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.Gabrielle Zevin
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That Woman is in love with her own grief.Gabrielle Zevin
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In truth, she hadn't put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don't really need to ask themselves if they are happy or not, do they? They just are happy, she thinks.Gabrielle Zevin
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Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that doesn't work, trying something else. Welcoming clutter Surrendering a good idea for a better one. Knowing you won't find the finish line for a year or two, or five...Richard Russo
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Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?Gabrielle Zevin
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On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the adults in her life deemed terribly important. Since she had died, everything she was doing on Earth had seemed entirely meaningless. From Liz's point of view, the question of what her life would be was now definitively answered. The story of her life is short and pointless: There once was a girl who got hit by a car and died. The end.Gabrielle Zevin
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There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?Gabrielle Zevin