Top 100 Gayle Forman Quotes

#1. Would we fall in love if we met today?

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#2. 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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#3. The fight they had outside the Roseland Theater in front of a bunch of punks and hipsters.

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#4. He talks about despair, how it drives in silence.

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#5. Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.

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#6. But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

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#7. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face.

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#8. There is so much to say. It is like shoving all the sand of the world into an hourglass. Or trying to get it out.

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#9. All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.

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#10. People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

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#11. My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.

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#12. Music! Goddammit! Music!" Mom screamed.
"We have some lovely Enya. Very soothing," the midwife said.
"Fuck Enya!" Mom screamed.

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#13. I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

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#14. The you you are now is the same you I was in love yesterday, the same you I will be in love tomorrow.

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#15. I let the memories flood me as I fill one page. Then another. And then I'm not even writing about him anymore. I'm writing about me.

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#16. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

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#17. I realize it's not just Willem I'm looking for; it's Lulu too.

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#18. 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

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#19. So dark you almost miss it

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#20. 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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#21. when you feel sad, you look sad

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#22. I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

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#23. Her eyes were open, then on me again like they never left.

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#24. Why get stained when getting dirty is so much more fun

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#25. 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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#26. cloying your-best-friend's-dead sympathy that will drive

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#27. 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.

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#28. Poetry isn't math was our battle cry

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#29. Sometimes you make choice in the Life, Sometime choices make you.

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#30. I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.

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#31. 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.

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#32. My husband used to say that scars were like tattoos but with better stories." "I

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#33. Welcome to the land where Christmas threw up.

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#34. Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

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#35. And eventually your loss normalizes - it integrates into part of your everyday life and you find yourself three or five years later doing okay, changed but . . . but still able to hear your friends' voices, still telling stories about them, still thinking of them every day.

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#36. 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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#37. As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

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#38. You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?

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#39. 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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#40. When Allyson smiles, Willem is reminded of a sunrise. A bit of light, then more of it, then a burst of brightness. A sunrise is something you can see all the time and still marvel at. Maybe that is why her smile feels so familiar. He has seen many sunrises

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#41. I don't know if once you die you remember things that happened to you when you were alive. It makes a certain logical sense that you wouldn't. That being dead will feel like before you were born, which is to say, a whole lot of nothingness.

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#42. We'll make it a blowout like in the olden days."
"When dinosaurs roamed the earth?" Teddy asked.
"Exactly," Dad said. "When dinosaurs roamed the earth and your mom and I were young.

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#43. But it was such a calming silence; it made me relax and feel closer to him than any heart-to-heart would have.

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#44. Sometimes you don't even need to be in the same room for the damage to be done.

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#45. Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations

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#46. Backstage, Willem is thinking about accidents again. And things that seemingly don't make sense, except they do. Like right out there in the fifth row. All of them, together. That makes sense.

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#47. There are so many ways to live, to define what living means for you and you alone. We are so narrow in our thinking, and once you understand that, once you decide to not abide by these artificial constraints, anything is possible and you are so liberated

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#48. Bruised but not broken, Dr Robinet told me before I left. I though the was talking about my spirit, but he'd been referring to my ribs.

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#49. 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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#50. pain, because the last bus back is pretty

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#51. 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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#52. 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.

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#53. I'm crying out of gratitude.

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#54. I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

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#55. Love can make you immortal

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#56. Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.

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#57. Because you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not."
"If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.

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#58. So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?"
"No. The wind just blew me here."
"What? Like a plastic bag?"
"I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.

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#59. I have nothing but time in my life, but never enough of it when I need it.

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#60. So this would like your farewell tour? Of New York? Of Me?

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#61. Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

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#62. A careful man tries to dodge the bullets, while a happy man takes a walk.

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#63. Kind of couple to talk about the future, about where our relationship was going, but with things suddenly

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#64. But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.

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#65. You just work through it. You just hang in there.

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#66. Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

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

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#68. It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it. Willem

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#69. Ll I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.

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#70. She's running the show. Maybe she's just biding her time. So you talk to her. You tell her to take all the time she needs, but to come back.

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#71. I recognized that the kiss was a door I had walked through.

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#72. We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.

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#73. Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.

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#74. What would you do if you had to choose?

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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.

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#78. Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life.
Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

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

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#80. You don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not.

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#81. I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.

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#82. The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.

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#83. And they seem to forget that you are a mere mortal; flesh and bone, bruisable and scare-able.

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#84. 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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#85. Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

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#86. Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I suppose that's true.

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#87. Bitch is just another word for feminist!

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#88. What about your mom?" "She offered to take me to Planned Parenthood to get the Pill and told me to make Adam get tested for various diseases. In the meantime, she ordered me to buy condoms now. She even gave me ten bucks to start my supply.

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

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#90. People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.

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#91. 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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#92. A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.

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#93. 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.

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#94. 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.

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#95. 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?

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#96. Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.

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#97. It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

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#98. It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

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#99. In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed

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#100. How do you find someone like that?"
Dee looks at me as if the answer is obvious. "You look.

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