{"author":"Gabrielle Zevin","author_id":"Gabrielle+Zevin","total_quotes":76,"quotes":[{"text":"Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.","author":"Gabrielle Zevin","tags":["life","love","sacrifice"],"id":5586,"author_id":"Gabrielle+Zevin"},{"text":"Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren't they much more common?","author":"Gabrielle Zevin","tags":["humour","love","starcrossed-lovers","unrequited-love"],"id":10009,"author_id":"Gabrielle+Zevin"},{"text":"Can I ask you something?' you said. 'How did you ever survive that scandal?'She said, 'I refused to be shamed.'How did you do that?' you asked. 'When they came at me, I kept coming,' she said.","author":"Gabrielle Zevin","tags":["fortitude","self-confidence","shame"],"id":10276,"author_id":"Gabrielle+Zevin"},{"text":"A.J. Watches Maya in her pink party dress, and he feels a vaguely familiar, slightly intolerable bubbling inside of him. He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother.","author":"Gabrielle Zevin","tags":["child","father","love"],"id":21152,"author_id":"Gabrielle+Zevin"},{"text":"I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.","author":"Gabrielle Zevin","tags":["bibliophile","book","book-lover","book-stores","books","gabrielle-zevin","the-storied-life-of-a-j-fikry"],"id":22430,"author_id":"Gabrielle+Zevin"},{"text":"People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.","author":"Gabrielle Zevin","tags":["women"],"id":29561,"author_id":"Gabrielle+Zevin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Gabrielle Zevin","tags":["love","stories"],"id":32482,"author_id":"Gabrielle+Zevin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Gabrielle Zevin","tags":["art"],"id":35791,"author_id":"Gabrielle+Zevin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Gabrielle Zevin","tags":["humorous"],"id":39668,"author_id":"Gabrielle+Zevin"},{"text":"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?","author":"Gabrielle Zevin","tags":["afterlife","tree"],"id":48191,"author_id":"Gabrielle+Zevin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":76,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}