Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.

I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved.

It's a very intimate thing to invite someone into your home; there's a lot of trust involved.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.

People like space. But they sometimes have been left out. People are much more open to that if you invite them in.

I don't have any problems getting people to open up.

I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted.

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection.

Open your hands if you want to be held.

...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.

I want to be where I'm wanted.

To LGBT men and women worldwide, let me say this: wherever you live and whatever the circumstances of your life, whether you are connected to a network of support or feel isolated and vulnerable, please know that you are not alone.

When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.

Sometimes, when we're feeling challenged in life, we feel a pull to isolate, and for me part of the joy of being a wife, a mother, and in a cast of friends is allowing myself to be in spaces of love. So being open to that love.

I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to.

What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

I don't belong here. It doesn't matter, because even if I don't belong in this place, she's here and I want to be where she is.

Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.

You're all welcome in California.