You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
Gabrielle ZevinSorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.
Gabrielle ZevinIntimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.
Gabrielle ZevinSomeday, weโll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe Iโll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, thatโs when Iโll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you canโt hook your boat to mine, because Iโm liable to sink us both.
Gabrielle ZevinLiz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing a smiling rack of gingerbread men in an oven. Baking gingerbread men, or any cooking for that matter, is probably close to suicide for a snowman, Liz thinks. Why would a snowman voluntarily engage in an activity that would in all likelihood melt him? Can snowmen even eat? Liz glares at the box.
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