Top 100 Gayle Forman Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. He talks about despair, how it drives in silence.
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#3. But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.
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#4. All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.
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#5. Teddy had taken his shirt off and had streaked himself with mud. Dad said he looked like one of the boys from Lord of the Flies.
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#6. Mia is walking away, walking toward the other end of the bridge. Without me.
I get it now.
I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.
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#7. Sometimes the best way to find out what you're supposed to do is by doing the thing you're not supposed to do.
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#8. 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. Anithing can happen in just one day
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#9. I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia
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#10. Willem tsk-tsks. You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.
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#11. I have nothing but time in my life, but never enough of it when I need it.
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#12. Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?
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#13. You just work through it. You just hang in there.
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#14. Ou're wrong about quitting when you're ahead. It means being grateful. Stopping when you realize you have is enough.
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#15. How come you have never written a song about me?
I'm not really good at writing about things that make me happy.
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#16. 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
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#17. And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.
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#18. Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.
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#19. Meg invited me to come again, but I always had reasons why I couldn't: my schedule was busy, bus fare wasn't cheap. Both of which were true, even if they weren't the truth.
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#20. The feelings pile up, threatening to crack-up my chest wide-open ..
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#21. Do you really think that if you don't mention my family I'll forget them?
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#22. I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.
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#23. I've never toughened up enough to handle what I'd have to handle if I were to stay.
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#24. Girls have always been the best distractions.
Until a girl became the thing I needed distraction from
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#25. I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me.
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#26. Her hands were freezing, just like they always were, so I warmed them, just like I always did.
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#27. Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.
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#29. Days like these go on for years. It's the ones you want to last that slip away - one, two, three - in seconds.
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#31. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.
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#32. These days, you've gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.
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#33. I think maybe traveling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it
you seem to.
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#35. I don't know how to be a friend. I don't know how to be anything.
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#36. Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.
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#37. I can't lose you again. It really will kill me this time.
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#38. You'll get through it. I know you seem like you won't, but you will.
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#39. Adam strummed an unfamiliar melody. I asked him what he was playing. I'm calling it 'My-Girlfriend's-Going-to-Julliard-Leaving-My-Punk-Heart-in-Shreds Blues.
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#40. Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.
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#41. He talks about despair, how it thrives in silence.
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#42. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.
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#43. We'll just be the kinds of girls who have boyfriends in college.
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#44. It's just that we'd like to think that craziness and sanity are on opposite ends of an ocean, but really they're more like neighboring islands.
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#45. In the lead-up to the launch of my new book I Was Here, I've seen a lot of discussion about depression and suicide and mental health and YA dealing with such intense matters. What I haven't seen discussed is kittens.
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#46. Mia's smile is melting chocolate. It's a kick-ass guitar solo. It's everything good in this world.
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#47. And suddenly I just need to hold his hand more than I've ever needed anything in this world.
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#48. I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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#49. I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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#50. There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.
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#51. Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
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#53. Tomorrow would be different. Sophie understood this. There really was no such thing as a minor miracle.
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#54. Next time I get sick, you can tell that to me. You can be my girl in the mountains."
"Okay", I say."I'll be your mountain girl and take care of you.
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#55. I don't want to lose you because of the f**ked-up way I found you.
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#56. How can I come this far and not tell him-he, who would understand it best-that by giving me that flyer, by inviting me to skip Hamlet, he helped me realize that it's not to be that matters, but how to be?
How can I come this far and not be brave?
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#57. Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely
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#58. You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love
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#59. ...
I kiss Allyson.
I complete the history that came before us, and in doing so, begin one all of our own.
Double happiness: I get it now.
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#60. First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me Animate
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#61. I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.
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#62. 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.
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#63. I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?
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#67. If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
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#68. And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.
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#69. I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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#70. (P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
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#71. Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was.
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#73. She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.
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#74. 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.
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#75. The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bad Whispers in my ear :"Better of Dead" Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret Kisses me gently when i wake up in a sweat "boo!
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#76. 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.
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#78. We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam
"Okay"-Mia
"So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam
"I'm scared of losing you"-Mia
"I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen"-Adam
"It still scares me"- Mia
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#79. My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.
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#80. If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?
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#82. We have to snatch the sun when we have it, don't we?
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#83. When we got back home, Gramps dropped me off and enveloped me in a hug. Normally, he was a handshaker, maybe a back-patter on really special occasions. His hug was strong and tight, and I knew it was his way of telling me that he'd had a wonderful time.
"Me, too, Gramps," I whispered.
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#84. Down different roads. But each of you gets to decide
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#85. Step away from the banana chair, Maribeth texted back.
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#86. A good fight scene is really a good love scene.
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#87. Isn't amazing how life is one thing and then becomes something else?
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#88. 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.
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#89. I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter
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#90. It was so new that day: the liberation of being honest, of being brave, maybe a little stupid.
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#91. Your presence can be soothing so long as what you say is soothing
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#93. Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy."
"Really? Was that how you quit me?
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#94. Everyone loves New York City for all these different reasons. The culture. The mix of people. The pace. The food. But for me, it's like one epic Easter egg hunt. You're always finding these little surprises around every corner.
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#95. What's that sound I hear?
It's just my lifetime
It's whistling past my ear
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#96. But after shows, I craved connection. I craved skin-the taste of another woman's sweat. If it couldn't be hers, well, then anyone's would do ... for a few hours.
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#98. If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.
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#99. I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
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#100. Not sure there is such a thing as a minor miracle.
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