Elsewhere Zevin Quotes

#1. The time one has to live is like the sun peeping through clouds, - Author: Dalai Lama XIV

#2. Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know - Author: Gabrielle Zevin

#3. On Elsewhere 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. We never know what will happen ... - Author: Gabrielle Zevin

#4. Lights, bright enough to dilate her eyes. Horns, flaccid and come too late. Metal crumpling like tissue. The body was not in pain but only because the body was gone, elsewhere. Yes, Daniel thinks just after impact but before death, like that. The passage hadn't been as bad as he had thought. - Author: Gabrielle Zevin

#5. When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength. - Author: Lori Lansens

#6. Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp - Author: Gabrielle Zevin

#7. I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel. - Author: Gabrielle Zevin

#8. The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so. - Author: Shelley Berman

#9. That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship. - Author: Avery Johnson

#10. Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over. - Author: Alan Rickman

#11. One of my favorite authors, Garbrielle Zevin, she did a book called 'Elsewhere,' that is one of my favorites, and I think they're making that into a movie too. I really want to be in that one just because the story is so beautiful. - Author: Isabelle Fuhrman