Gayle Forman Quotes

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.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

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

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.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.

There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

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.

And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.

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

We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.

Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

Her eyes flutter up to meet mine. “Are you hungry?”she asks. Am I ever.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

You don’t share me. You own me.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

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.

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

It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.

I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.

Love can make you immortal

I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.

Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone.

Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her 'wife.

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

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

I understood all that in my head, but I still didn‟t believe it in my heart.

If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.

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?

I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

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

Anything that kills hope is a sin

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

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