In the Age of Love and Chocolate Quotes

“The fish does not die with regrets because the fish cannot love. I die with regrets, and yet I am glad I am not a fish.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“I've thought a lot about it. The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“So I will wait, because I would rather wait for you than waste my time with someone who isn't you. And I will focus on the long game. As they say in baseball, losing game one and even game two is no reason to give up on the whole series. When you're ready, if you're ever ready, give me the word.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“We are where we are.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“He didn't break my heart. No one can break your heart except you.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“Besides, I did not require heroism--I had been the hero of my own life for some time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“The problem with meeting new people is not that you might not like them, but that you will like them too much.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“I doubt that," I said. "I can argue with anything.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“You have a thousand chances to make something right. That's a heck of a lot of chances, by the way. But they do run out eventually.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“But it's the only way I know to move forward. You make a list and then you go and do the things on it.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“Dancing was a kind of surrender to feeling, to sound, to the present" -Anya”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“I believe when it is convenient for me to believe.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“Once I surrendered to it, all I tasted was the sweetness.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“You want less crime? Make it so there are less criminals.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“Sometimes, this good old world does not much care what you believe.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“Remember: you are as good as you are tomorrow.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“And then, because the world is relentless this way, it was spring.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told myself.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“Tomorrow," she said, "we try again. We fail again. We do better.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“...and you're going to regret that you didn't stand by me. Because if you love someone, you love them all the way. You love them even when they make mistakes. That's what I think.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“What I mean to say is that you can make a choice, be reasonably satisfied with it, and still regret that which you did not choose. Maybe it's like ordering dessert. You have it narrowed down to either a warm peanut butter torte or strawberries jubilee. You choose the torte, and it's delicious. But you still wonder about those strawberries...”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“Anya: The more I think about dancing, the more I don't get it
Scarlet: Sop thinking. That's the key.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“So I will wait, because I would rather wait for you than waste my time with someone who isn't you.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“He looked like a charcoal drawing of a man. In death, he was blacks and whites.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“If you are a person who has always been liked, it is hard to understand why you have, without changing a thing about yourself, suddenly become unlikable. It is equally difficult to turn the tide in your favor when those around you find you to be deficient.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“I had never been good with words. On the path from my heart to my brain to my mouth, phrases became twisted and hopelessly convoluted. The intent—what I meant to say—never quite made it out.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate

“I’m meant to love you, no matter how you act, no matter what you do? I couldn’t respect myself if I felt that way.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, In the Age of Love and Chocolate