Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact has an order, oblique as it may seem, and I a place within it.

I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street

The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that "brings and shuts the day," while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe.

Dawn comes before sleep does.

I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.

Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.

I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.

Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

I love the process of being alone in a room.

Why do they collect garbarge at 5am? Why? It's garbage. It's not going to go bad again.

Early morning does not mince words.