Gayle Forman Quotes

Women can handle the worst kind of pain. ~ Gayle Forman

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that? ~ Gayle Forman

The you you are now is the same you I was in love yesterday, the same you I will be in love tomorrow. ~ Gayle Forman

Really? Was that how you quit me? ~ Gayle Forman

I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close.
Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough. ~ Gayle Forman

Annoyance has made me bilingual. ~ Gayle Forman

Then he gave a sad little smile. "Yo Mama better watch his back," he said. ~ Gayle Forman

Mia faces me now. The wind is whipping her hair this way and that so she looks like some kind of mystical sorceress, beautiful, powerful, and scary at the same time. She shakes her head and starts to turn away.
Oh, no! We've come this far over the bridge. She can blow the damn thing up if she wants to. But not without telling me everything. I grab her, turn her to face me. "Why not? Tell me. You owe me this!"
She looks at me, square in the eye. Taking aim. And then she pulls the trigger. "Because I hated you. ~ Gayle Forman

Sometimes I'll watch a movie all over again to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. ~ Gayle Forman

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself. ~ Gayle Forman

There's a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself. ~ Gayle Forman

First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me Animate ~ Gayle Forman

Rock star. The words are so full of smoke and mirrors that it's impossible to find a real person behind them. But I am a rock star. I have the bank account of a rock star and the platinum records of a rock star and the girlfriend of a rock star. But I fucking hate that term, and hearing Mia pin it on me ups the level of my loathing to a new stratosphere. ~ Gayle Forman

She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me. ~ Gayle Forman

The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there. ~ Gayle Forman

Firefly, it is an act of bravery to feel your feelings. Oh, Meg would've loved that. It's an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die. ~ Gayle Forman

I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book. ~ Gayle Forman

The feelings pile up, threatening to crack-up my chest wide-open .. ~ Gayle Forman

I felt the heat flood my neck and I could sense myself blushing. I stared at my shoes. I knew that Adam was looking at me now with as much certainty as I knew that if I looked up he was going to kiss me. And it took me by surprise how much I wanted to be kissed by him, to realize that I'd thought about it so often that I'd memorized the exact shape of his lips, that I'd imagined running my finger down the cleft of his chin. My eyes flickered upward. Adam was there waiting for me. That was how it started. ~ Gayle Forman

It would've been easier to die. It's not that I want to be dead now. I don't. I have a lot in my life that I get satisfaction from, that I love. But some days, especially in the beginning, it was so hard. And I couldn't help but think that it would've been so much simpler to go with the rest of them. But you - you asked me to stay. You begged me to stay. You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. ~ Gayle Forman

If I stay

Life is more than just a game.

I've learnt that fun is not the same

When faced with such a thorny choice,

I close my eyes and hear a voice…

It tells me what to do and say

When to go and when to stay.

When it's time to run away,

But it won't tell me this.

But still why me? I ask you why?

Why must I choose to live or die?

To this I can't turn a blind eye;

I've done that far too much.

So many reasons say 'don't go'

I'd want to stay but I don't know

When love itself is lost from earth

Should I still walk on it's soft hearth?

Is there yet a space for me?

Is there still someone I might be?

Can I stay here on my own?

Can I face the world alone?

Some say dying is just a step,

That life is one and this the next,

But can I watch life blow away?

And what will happen

If I stay? ~ Gayle Forman

I drove her to the airport. She kissed me goodbye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she skipped through security. She never came back. ~ Gayle Forman

Everyone takes a turn, and when it gets to me, I shout out what Jewish people say at times like this: "L'chaim!"

"It means 'to life,'" I explain. And as I say it, I think that maybe this is what I was saying a prayer for back in the cathedral. To life. ~ Gayle Forman

Adam had chosen me, and this I didn't understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn't make sense. ~ Gayle Forman

cloying your-best-friend's-dead sympathy that will drive ~ Gayle Forman

This day, so seared in my memory, is just another day to everyone else. ~ Gayle Forman

But you could've at least told me. Instead of dropping me like a one night stand, you could've had the decency to break up with me instead of leaving me wondering for years ... ~ Gayle Forman

I'm crying out of gratitude. ~ Gayle Forman

Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I'm kind of getting the concept of closure. It's no big dramatic before-after. It's more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times. ~ Gayle Forman

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity? ~ Gayle Forman

After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers. ~ Gayle Forman

It was like finding out the world was made of gossamer and could be so easily ripped apart. To be solely at the mercy of fate. ~ Gayle Forman

I understand then that giving me the computer is not really a gift. But maybe my taking it is. ~ Gayle Forman

You never knew, did you? Maybe not knowing didn't have to be so terrifying. Maybe it could just be life. "When ~ Gayle Forman

It's okay,' he tells me. '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.' His voice cracks with emotion. He stops, clears his throat, takes a breath, and continues. '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.'

For the first time since I realized that Teddy was gone, too, I feel something unclench. I feel myself breathe. I know that Gramps can't be that late-inning pinch hitter I'd hoped for. He won't unplug my breathing tube or overdoes me with morphine or anything like that. But this is the first time today that anyone has acknowledged what I have lost. I know that the social worker warned Gran and Gramps not to upset me, but Gramps's recognition, and the permission he just offered me--it feels like a gift.

Gramps doesn't leave me. He slumps back into the chair. It's quiet now. So quiet you can almost hear other people's dreams. So quiet that you can almost hear me tell Gramps, 'Thank you. ~ Gayle Forman

But the you who are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow. I love that you're fragile and tough, quiet and kick-ass. ~ Gayle Forman

Every fiction has its base in fact, he tells her. ~ Gayle Forman

I wasn't in danger today," I tell him in a choked voice. "I escaped danger today." And I did... I feel like the whole day has been an electrical shock, paddles straight to my heart, bringing me out of a lifelong torpor I hadn't even known I was in. "I escaped," I repeat. ~ Gayle Forman

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it. ~ Gayle Forman

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell. ~ Gayle Forman

Of all the things and people she missed lately, it was odd to find herself at the top of the list. ~ Gayle Forman

I WANT TO CUT THROUGH THE SPACE THAT SEPERATES US. ~ Gayle Forman

PREPARE FOR LANDING PREPARE FOR LANDING, TRACK 1 The seat belt sign is illuminated The flight attendants beyond frustrated The passengers are drunk and frayed A baby's screaming in seat 16A Another flight from here to where? Crammed in a sardine can with not enough air We're on the map, I know that much But the directions I really need are in your touch Prepare for landing, says the captain As the plane arcs down to the looming horizon Ushering us onto some foreign soil I touch the ground, and see your smile Up and down, and down and up Cokespritebeerpretzelspeanuts As we careen through empty sky It feels like nothing but you and I Prepare for landing, says the captain Out the window, the sun is setting Hand in mine, you give a squeeze You're all the home I'll ever need ~ Gayle Forman

She was another tough-as-nails, tender-as-kittens, feminist bitch. ~ Gayle Forman

Tabula rasa... time to hacer borrón y cuenta nueva, wipe the board clean," the singer chants.
Wipe the board clean? I feel like my board is too clean, perpetually wiped bare. What I want is the opposite: a messy scrawl, constellations of indelible things that can't ever be washed away. ~ Gayle Forman

A thousand suns rise from my chest. ~ Gayle Forman

Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me. ~ Gayle Forman

I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. ~ 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

Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I don't know when exactly I started giving myself this daily pep talk - or why. ~ Gayle Forman

Sleepovers and dance parties and those talks we would have until three in the morning that would make us feel lousy the next day because we'd slept like hell but also feel good because the talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life. ~ Gayle Forman

(P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins. ~ Gayle Forman

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything. ~ Gayle Forman

One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys. ~ Gayle Forman

I shouldn't have let you go. I should've said something yesterday, but it was intense for me, too, and you scared me, Cody. You scare me a lot."
"That's because you're a city dick," I reply. "City dicks are always scared."
"So I've been told."
"Well, you scare me, too", I say. ~ Gayle Forman

It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works. ~ Gayle Forman

Wish that there was someone I could explain this to. Someone who might understand what I'm feeling. And for one small second, I do imagine the person I could talk to, about finding this door, and losing it. He would understand. But that's one door that needs to stay shut. ~ Gayle Forman

In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it. ~ 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

Two oceans between us. And still not enough. ~ Gayle Forman

Every fiction has its base in fact. ~ Gayle Forman

want you to get on with your life. ~ Gayle Forman

And I realize that before there's a next, there's a now that needs attending to. ~ Gayle Forman

I'm pretty sure that when babies are born in Oregon, they leave the hospital with birth certificates - and teeny-tiny sleeping bags. Everyone in the state camps. The hippies and the rednecks. The hunters and the tree huggers. Rich people. Poor people. Even rock musicians. Especially rock musicians. Our band had perfected the art of punk-rock camping, throwing a bunch of crap into the van with, like, an hour's notice and just driving out into the mountains, where we'd drink beer, burn food, jam on our instruments around the campfire, and sack out under the open sky. Sometimes, on tour, back in the early hardscrabble days, we'd even camp as an alternative to crashing in another crowded, roach-infested rock 'n' roll house.
I don't know if it's because no matter where you live, the wilderness is never that far off, but it just seemed like everyone in Oregon camped. ~ Gayle Forman

Her hands were freezing, just like they always were, so I warmed them, just like I always did. ~ Gayle Forman

Fake it 'till you make it. ~ Gayle Forman

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too. ~ Gayle Forman

There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body. For the first time, I can sense how fully agonizing staying will be. ~ Gayle Forman

Adam's lips are set in a grime line. I can't tell if he's about to cry or about to punch the guard. For his sake, I hope it's the former. For you own, I hope the latter. ~ Gayle Forman

I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too. ~ Gayle Forman

But at first I was so confused. I didn't even know what was happening, only that I was feeling better without you and how could I explain that to you? ~ Gayle Forman

I'm the one shot, the heir and the spare, so you have to make damn sure your one investment pays off because there's no backup. ~ 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

There are pictures of Kim and Mia from high school and one of the two of them posing on top of the Empire State Building - a jolting reminder that their relationship wasn't truncated, they have a history of which I know nothing. ~ Gayle Forman

It had given me a bad feeling, though I wasn't sure if it was because I was scared I wasn't going to find him, or scared of just what I might find. ~ Gayle Forman

Look I accept Adam because you love him. And I assume he accepts me because you love me ... your love binds us.' ... The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim's notion that they were somehow bound together through me- until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor. ~ Gayle Forman

The rain keeps up throughout the next day. "Lovely English summer we're having," everyone jokes. ~ Gayle Forman

It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen. ~ Gayle Forman

I'll be your mess, you be mine
That was the deal that we had signed
I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste
Gas masks, gloves, to keep us safe
But now I'm alone in an empty room
Staring down immaculate doom
Messy ~ Gayle Forman

Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden Hush ~ Gayle Forman

I think maybe traveling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it
you seem to. ~ Gayle Forman

I've never toughened up enough to handle what I'd have to handle if I were to stay. ~ Gayle Forman

They were married by a lesbian justice of the peace while their friends played a guitar-feedback-heavy version of the "Wedding March." The bride wore a white-fringed flapper dress and black spiked boots. The groom wore leather. ~ Gayle Forman

The words he writes to his music, they're poetry. ~ Gayle Forman

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. ~ Gayle Forman

There.
I'm not exactly sure where there is, but by the way he says it, I know it's not a place you'd want to be. ~ Gayle Forman

I've always said it's better to be hated than it is to be ignored. Maybe on the same lines, it's better to feel this than to feel nothing. ~ Gayle Forman

We'll just be the kinds of girls who have boyfriends in college. ~ Gayle Forman

Life is this big, fat, gigantic stinking mess. That's fhe beauty of it too. ~ Gayle Forman

These days, you've gotta milk a dollar out of every dime. ~ Gayle Forman

She mock shudders the way you do when you talk about someone's misfortunes that have nothing to do with you, that don't touch you, and never will. I've never hit a woman in my life, but for one minute I want to punch her in the face, give her a taste of the pain she's so casually describing. ~ Gayle Forman

I didn't believe it was happening. But it was.
Just being here, being away, it was all so much easier in a way I didn't anticipate. In a way I didn't
think my life could be anymore. It was a huge relief. ~ Gayle Forman

So much my parents as my little brother. What would this do to him? ~ Gayle Forman

Karma's not like a bank. Make a deposit, take a withdrawal. But more and more, I am starting to suspect that all this is payback for something - only not the good kind. ~ Gayle Forman

with a goofy-looking bald baby on the cover. Dad disappeared ~ Gayle Forman

Now and Laters. Starbust, Pixie Stix. If she gets too bitchy, just feed her this crap. As long as the sugar high is in effect, you and the wildlife should be safe ~ 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

You had a pile of rocks, and you cleaned them up pretty and made a necklace. Meg got jewels, and she hung herself with them ~ Gayle Forman

A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin. ~ Gayle Forman

In English class, someone flung a folded-up square of notebook paper onto the floor next to my right foot. I picked it up and opened it. It read, Bitch! Nobody had ever called me that before, and though I was automatically furious, deep down i was also flattered that I had elicited enough emotion to be worthy of the name. ~ Gayle Forman