Margarettown Quotes

“There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it is true, but also a brain and also a soul. I've come to believe that we love with our brains as much as our hearts. Real Love is not just instinct, but intent...... From year to year, you may not always be the same Jane. This is perfectly normal. A Jane is many Janes in a lifetime.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“Oh, all stories are the same, aren't they? Men and women fall in love or out of love. People are born; people die. It al ends happily or it all ends sadly, and the difference matters only to the people involved.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room. ”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“An echo makes good company, Old Margaret said. Whenever I'm lonely, I always try to find one to talk to. They're much better than mirrors. Mirrors say nasty things about you. Echoes are far more supportive. They think whatever you say is completely brilliant.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“Real love' is not just instinct, but intent.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“But aren't we all actually fictions of each other?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“She hasn't cried once. SHe doesn't understand that Margaret is dead. At that age, they can't fully understand the concept of death. It's a good thing really.
Jane fully understood the concept of death and she felt truly injured that Aunt Bess considered her unmoved. Jane thought it should be perfectly clear to everyone that rearranging the furniture in her dollhouse was her expression of grief. She had been moving the Mother Doll (it was a nuclear family of dolls that consisted of a mother, a father, a boy, and a girl) and all the Mother Doll's possessions into the dollhouse's attic. Jane wondered why tears were considered a superior form of grief to the rearrangement of one's dollhouse.
Feeling terribly misunderstood, Jane began to cry.
Oh listen, said Aunt Bess, she begins to understand.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“No doubt, you are doomed to love again.” “Doomed? That’s an awful thing to say.” “Doomed, blessed. It’s only your perspective.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“The best way to get to Margarettown is to 'try' to get lost.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“I stopped 'not' looking at her breasts for a moment in order to look in her eyes. I saw amusement and understanding there, and I was in love. At that age (or any age for that matter), our hearts are simple enough.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“Before your mother, my heart was little more than a seed, Jane. A wiggly, gelatinous mother, rather like a solitary sperm.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown