Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

As a jumper, I try to defy gravity as long as I can. But no matter how far I jump, I'll always hit the earth eventually.

That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.

Falling is one of the ways of moving.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.

Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.

When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Alas! fond child, How are thy thoughts beguil'd To hope for honey from a nest of wasps? Thou may'st as well Go seek for ease in hell, Or sprightly nectar from the mouths of asps. The world's a hive, From whence thou canst derive No good, but what thy soul's vexation brings: But case thou meet Some petty-petty sweet, Each drop is guarded with a thousand stings.