Top 100 Gayle's Quotes
#1. I was just asked to go somewhere. I said, "I can't. I have to stay home. Gayle's sick." Clearly, I was not accepting responsibility for my actions. Next time I want to be more honest and state that I do what I do because I want to do it.
Hugh Prather
#2. 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
#3. But I'm also feeling all that I have in my life, which includes what I have lost, as well as the great unknown of what life might still bring me. And it's all too much. The feelings pile up, threatening to crack my chest wide open.
Gayle Forman
#4. There's something comforting in that. To go down as a family. No one left behind.
Gayle Forman
#5. I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.
Gayle Forman
#6. When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I'd lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies.
Gayle King
#7. It's like my ear attunes to the weird language and I'm sucked fully into the story, the same way I am when I watch a movie, so that I feel it.
Gayle Forman
#8. As many as half of Ethiopia's girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.
Helene D. Gayle
#9. Complicated and confused in a wholly fucked-up way is a good way to describe it. But maybe that's just how love is.
Gayle Forman
#10. 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
#11. I've got news for you, Mia. There's going to be all kinds of terrible in there, so you won't really stand out, Mom said.
Gayle Forman
#12. There are no endings for any of us, happy or
otherwise, until we die. A fairy tale only ends
happily because that's the point where the
storyteller stops telling the story.
Lilly Gayle
#13. Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.
Gayle Forman
#14. I'd like the kind of love that lasts forever.It doesn't matter if it's plain,it doesn't matter if it's ugly.It just has to be there.
Mike Gayle
#15. What's the big story?" he asks.
"We're slacker playboys with trust funds, renting a house on Isla Mujeres."
"So, aside from the house, you're pretending to be you?
Gayle Forman
#16. Days like these go on for years. It's the ones you want to last that slip away - one, two, three - in seconds.
Gayle Forman
#17. Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.
Gayle Forman
#18. 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
#19. People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.
Gayle King
#20. I know for sure that nothing is guaranteed. Life always changes. I know for sure that I'm open to all possibilities always ... let's just say my life is never boring.
Gayle King
#21. 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
#22. It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge, Henry said.
Gayle Forman
#23. 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.
Gayle Forman
#24. My chips are all cashed out. There's nothing to lose. Or maybe I've already lost it and found it, and whatever else there might be to lose ...
Gayle Forman
#25. 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
#27. My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
Gayle Forman
#28. That's when I figured out the ugly secret of a mother's love: you protect them to protect yourself.
Gayle Forman
#29. Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
Gayle Forman
#30. There's no point in getting angry. Anger makes you ask questiona. Anger sets up expectations and demands to know the truth.
Gayle Friesen
#31. No show can be 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' including 'The Gayle King Show.' I think she's very good but I think I'm very good too. I think we have different skill sets ... but I don't think that I could do what she does and never have.
Gayle King
#32. It's a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now words don't seem as necessary
Gayle Forman
#33. Don't worry, I plan on living a long time."
"Why are you making a bucket list, then?"
"Because if you wait until you're really dying, it's too late.
Gayle Forman
#34. Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just don't know any better.
Gayle Lynds
#35. You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.
Gayle Forman
#36. I used to think I had all the time in the world to do everything I wanted. But what's the use of having all the time in the world if you're always wasting it on things that don't mean a thing?
Mike Gayle
#37. 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.
Gayle Forman
#38. The whole night had been a mistake. It's not going to let me rewind. Or unmake the mistakes I've made.Or the promises I've mad. Or have her back. Or have me back.
Gayle Forman
#39. Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.
Gayle Forman
#40. All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'
Gayle King
#41. I know he's right to be worried about us, because I'm worried about us too. I don't understand how relationships work. I don't know how they survive. It seems every day something new arrives to threaten your peace of mind.
Mike Gayle
#42. It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.
Gayle Forman
#43. Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.
Gayle Forman
#44. 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
#45. Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It's the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" "blue
Gayle Forman
#46. Writing in the first person helps to make clear the author's role in constructing rather than discovering the story/knowledge.
Gayle Letherby
#47. I've come to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it. Because when she cut off contact, yeah, I knew what had happened. But it took me a long, long time to believe it.
Some days, I still don't quite believe it.
Gayle Forman
#49. He kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.
Gayle Forman
#50. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Byrn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me.
Gayle Forman
#51. You win some, you lose some. And sometimes you win and lose at the same time. Life's a bloody cockup.
Gayle Forman
#52. Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations
Gayle Forman
#53. I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#54. 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.
Gayle Forman
#55. I'm beginning to worry you might be more evil than I originally believed.'
He grinned down at her. 'It's the pretty face. Fools them every time.
Eliza Gayle
#56. Any film featuring Bradley Cooper's gorgeous blue eyes is automatically on my must-see list and they did not disappoint in 'The Words,' which is so intense and confusing that I was pretty lost by the end!
Gayle King
#57. 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.
Gayle Forman
#58. 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
Gayle Forman
#59. I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
Sami Gayle
#60. 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.
Gayle Forman
#61. 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
#62. How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he's a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill.
Gayle King
#63. But these days, it's hard to make it just on a beautiful voice.
Crystal Gayle
#64. There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.
Helene D. Gayle
#65. My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.
Chick Corea
#66. 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.
Gayle Forman
#67. 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.
Gayle Forman
#68. A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.
Gayle King
#69. 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
#70. cloying your-best-friend's-dead sympathy that will drive
Gayle Forman
#71. The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist's research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it's even less - closer to a tenth of a percent.
Gayle Lynds
#72. I realize it's not just Willem I'm looking for; it's Lulu too.
Gayle Forman
#73. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.
Gayle Forman
#74. Sooner or later change kills everything, mate,' I say. 'It's the way of the world.
Mike Gayle
#75. 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.
Gayle Forman
#76. 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
#77. Ethiopia's government is doing a commendable job of working closely with donors and humanitarian organizations to educate parents about child marriage, and to support organizations like the Hamlin Fistula Hospital.
Helene D. Gayle
#78. ...he starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines.
Gayle Forman
#79. ...it's the groups that can't accept diversity that hate and fear us the most. They should celebrate diversity, not just accept it.
A.B. Gayle
#80. 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
#81. My heart fluttered and my skin tingled anytime I was near him. How I viewed him had changed. He wasn't just Brenden's best friend anymore, not in my head. Not in my heart.
Catherine Gayle
#83. In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.
Helene D. Gayle
#84. :That's what you do when you love someone." ... "You give all you have to give," he said, "and they do the same. You fill each other up." ... "It doesn't work if it isn't even, though," I said. "If one does all the giving and the other does all the taking
Catherine Gayle
#86. But I'd understand if you chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And either way you lose. What can I tell you? Love's a bitch.
Gayle Forman
#87. I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.
Gayle King
#88. Remember that there's a time to hate and a time to heal.
Gayle Roper
#89. We know that if you educate a girl, as the saying goes, you educate a nation. That girl will get married later, she will have fewer children, she's more likely to earn an income, and that income is more likely to be plowed back into the family so that the family benefits.
Helene D. Gayle
#90. Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#91. About never knowing your life is changing until it's already happened
Gayle Forman
#92. Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.
Gayle Forman
#93. It's funny how once you start pretending, you realize how much everyone else is too.
Gayle Forman
#94. It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam
Gayle Forman
#95. Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
Gayle Roper
#96. 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
#97. 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.
Gayle Forman
#98. 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.
Gayle Forman
#99. Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I suppose that's true.
Gayle Forman
#100. 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
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