Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • Author: Gabrielle Zevin
  • Full Title: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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Highlights

  • There were people with whom you might have a decent conversation for twenty minutes. But to find someone who you wanted to talk to for 609 hours—that was rare. (Location 1091)
  • There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway. (Location 1161)
  • I am, as you know, a bottomless pit of ambition and need. (Location 1199)
  • Other people’s parents are often a delight. (Location 1289)
  • Sam’s grandfather had two core beliefs: (1) all things were knowable by anyone, and (2) anything was fixable if you took the time to figure out what was broken. Sam believed these things as well. (Location 1654)
  • “You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. (Location 3595)
  • You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you and it’s a perfect time for you to sit down in front of your computer and make another game. You try again. You fail better.” (Location 3596)
  • It was easy to dislike the man; it was harder to dislike the little boy who existed just below the surface of the man. (Location 4186)
  • There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.” (Location 5038)
  • “And what is love, in the end?” Alabaster said. “Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else’s journey through life?” (Location 5735)
  • Since she’d started teaching and become a mother, she’d felt old, but that night, she realized she wasn’t old at all. You couldn’t be old and still be wrong about as many things as she’d been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were. (Location 6415)