Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

I don't really focus on other people's expectations of me. I only care what my own expectations are.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.

Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

There are things one must do for oneself.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.

I'm not trying to live anybody else's life.

I did my solo thing for a while and got that out of my system.

I like having the space of my own project.

To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.