Gayle Forman
40 quotes
Biography
"Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you."
"I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard."
"If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay."
"Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal"
"I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up."
"Please Mia,"he implores. "Don't make me write a song."
"Fake it 'till you make it."
"I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting."
"But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today."
"Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill."
"There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that."
"She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride."
"Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous."
"And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found."
"But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow."
"Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all."
"We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day."
"In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's."
"It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome."
"You dumb-ass,"I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me."
"Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them."
"Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk."
"Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take."
"Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out."
"But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?"