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Gabrielle Zevin
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. We are not alone.
My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
We are not quite novels.

The analogy he is looking for is almost there.
We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.
In the end, we are collected works.
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Tosca Lee
“our love is proved when we love those who are not beautiful, who wound with word or deed. When we love not out of pity, or even for their sakes, but for our own. And here is the secret: they do not wound us, as Yaweh does not wound us. We wound ourselves by allowing the offense. And so Yaweh commands forgiveness for our own healing. Because in honoring ourselves—and others as ourselves—we please and honor Yaweh, who looks not on what a person does, but on the heart.” I”
Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

Gabrielle Zevin
“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin
“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.”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin
“Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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