Sam Masur Quotes

“How do I go on when the person I love most in the world is in love with someone else? Someone tell me the solution, he thought, so I don't have to play this losing game all the way through.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“But this was classic Sam—he had learned to tolerate the sometimes-painful present by living in the future.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“To return to the city of one's birth always felt like retreat.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Sadie felt that everything Sam did was an aesthetic choice. Not long after they'd move to California, he had had his name legally changed from Samson Mazur to Sam Mazer. The explanation he gave her: the name Masur had never meant much to him, and Mazer sounded more like the name of a Master Builder of Worlds. In the last year, he had begun to asking them to refer to him just by Mazer, like he was Madonna or Prince. "You can still call me Sam in private," Sam had said to Sadie, "but in public, I'd prefer to go by Mazer. That's my name now.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“With his sweet, roundish face, light-colored eyes, and mix of white and Asian features, Sam looked almost exactly like an anime character. Astro Boy, or one of the wisecracking little brothers of manga.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“We walk back to town, and he looks at me seriously and he says, 'Sadie, when you tell this story, say I asked you at the glass flower exhibit. Don't say it was closed.' The myth, the narrative, whatever you want to call it, was always of supreme importance to Sam.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Samson, you are a lucky boy,' Don Hyun said to Sam in a perfectly clear voice. 'You have had tragedy, yes, but you have had many good friends as well.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow