Gayle Forman Quotes

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.

I actually feel something in my chest open, a feeling so intense, it’s like my heart’s about to burst. And I just let it. I just let it out.

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?

When the sun shines, you let it shine on you

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

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

Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.

You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia

Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.

I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

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

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

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.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny

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.

..all 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.

What would you do if you had to choose?

I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.

Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.

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.

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

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

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

I can’t imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head—the comfort that would’ve brought.

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

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.

I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.

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

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

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

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!

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?

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.

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.