# Quote — Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

> Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

- Author: [Gabrielle Zevin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabrielle-zevin.md)
- Book: [The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabrielle-zevin/the-storied-life-of-aj-fikry.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Zevin#The_Storied_Life_of_A.J._Fikry_(2014)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabrielle-zevin/the-storied-life-of-aj-fikry/sometimes-books-dont

## More from this book

> You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabrielle-zevin/the-storied-life-of-aj-fikry/you-know-everything.md)

> We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabrielle-zevin/the-storied-life-of-aj-fikry/we-arent-the.md)