Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

Love is the reason you were born.

If you have love in your life, you have life.

and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.

He measures our lives by how we love.

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.

So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, "I love you, too."

As you go through life you realize that the love that you have for the people in your life and their love for you is all that matters. It's really about how you regard them and how they regard you.

Where there is love there is life.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.

Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.