Al Forman Quotes

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

Hate me. Devastate me. Annihilate me. Re-create me. Re-create me. Won't you, won't you won't you re-create me.

Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.

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.

Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law.

It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.

(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

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

C'est courageux d'aller dans l'inconnu': It is courageous to go into territory unknown.

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

She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?

These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.

And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.

I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.

Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.

Accidents. It's all about the accidents.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.

It doesn't rain every day. Just every other day.

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it’s my voice this time and it’s asking a question: How does she know?

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

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into.

It's nice, this. The canal." He looks at me. "You." "I'll bet you say that to all the canals.

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.

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.

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.

No one is who they pretend to be

I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for; it’s Lulu too.

This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am." The look he gives me is withering. "Do you?

Closure. I loathe that word.

I'll let you go. If you stay.

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?

I don't know how to be a friend. I don't know how to be anything.

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

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

he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.

Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.

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

Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.

I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.

But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture