Gayle Forman Quotes

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.

~ Gayle Forman

Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal

~ Gayle Forman

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

~ Gayle Forman

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.

~ Gayle Forman

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.

~ Gayle Forman

Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

~ Gayle Forman

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.

~ Gayle Forman

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

~ Gayle Forman

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.

~ Gayle Forman

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.

~ Gayle Forman

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

~ Gayle Forman

And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.

~ Gayle Forman

So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

~ Gayle Forman

Fake it 'till you make it.

~ Gayle Forman

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.

~ Gayle Forman

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.

~ Gayle Forman

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.

~ Gayle Forman

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.

~ Gayle Forman

Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.

~ Gayle Forman

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

~ Gayle Forman

My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.

~ Gayle Forman

I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

~ Gayle Forman

We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.

~ Gayle Forman

I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. Her hair, long and dark, is down now, swimming damply against her bare shoulders, which are still milky white and covered with the constellation of freckles that I used to kiss. The scar on her left shoulder, the one that used to be an angry red weld is silvery pink now. Almost like the latest rage in tattoo accessories. Almost pretty.

~ Gayle Forman

We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together. Mia's legs are off the ground, wrapped around my waist, her hands dipping in my hair, my hands tangled in hers. And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.

~ Gayle Forman

It takes a certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise.

~ Gayle Forman

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.

~ Gayle Forman

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.

~ Gayle Forman

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.

~ Gayle Forman

It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So 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.

~ Gayle Forman

But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.

~ Gayle Forman

Samo mislim da su sprovodi vrlo slični smrti. Možeš imati želje i planove, ali na kraju ipak nemaš kontrolu ni nad čim.

~ Gayle Forman

Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obscuration. Red flowers dot the land in the breeze's chase while the land colored up in red after the kiss.

~ Gayle Forman

Accidents. It's all about the accidents.

~ Gayle Forman

To be or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. I had to memorize the whole speech for sophomore English, and I can still remember every word. I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words right and collect my A.

~ Gayle Forman

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want the men wind up suckered into things.

~ Gayle Forman

You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.

~ Gayle Forman

She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.

~ Gayle Forman

Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

~ Gayle Forman

But now here I am: No money. No place to stay. It should be my worst nightmare. But I don't care. It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.

~ Gayle Forman