Gayle Forman Quotes

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

Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely

You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

Traveling isn't something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing.

I want you to play me like a cello.

But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.

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.

I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.

It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

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

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.

You talked to me, but you didn’t. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to me. And the words that actually came out.

Every fiction has its base in fact.