Elsewhere

by Gabrielle Zevin

“I have to, Curtis. I don’t have any choice.” “Lizzie, my love, there’s always a choice.”

People, you’ll find, aren’t usually all good or all bad. Sometimes they’re a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes, they’re mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.”

“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read him if someone is making you,”

“Happiness is a choice.”

we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be.

There was a time Liz was afraid that she would forget things, but by the time she truly began to forget, she forgot to be afraid to forget. Life is kind,