It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.
Gayle FormanBecause 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.
Gayle FormanBecause 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.
Gayle FormanBarrel of the gun, rounds one two three She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening Lick the blood that covers me Sheโs the last one standing โRouletteโ Collateral Damage, Track 11
Gayle FormanIt's like the piano and the cello are being poured into my body, the same way the IV and blood transfusions are. And the memories of my life as it was, and the flashes of it as it might be, are coming so fast and furious. I feel like I can no longer keep up with them but they keep coming and everything is colliding, until I cannot take anymore. Until I cannot be like this a second longer.
Gayle Forman