Gayle Forman Quotes

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

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.

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

By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.

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

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

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

Dear Willem: I’ve been trying to forget about you and our day in Paris for nine months now, but as you can see, it’s not going all that well. I guess more than anything, I want to know, did you just leave? If you did, it’s okay. I mean it’s not, but if I can know the truth, I can get over it. And if you didn’t leave, I don’t know what to say. Except I’m sorry that I did. I don’t know what your response will be at getting this letter, like a ghost from your past. But no matter what happened, I hope you’re okay.

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.

Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.

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

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

And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.

When I was little, I used to go to the local ice-skating rink. In my mind, I always felt like I could twirl and jump, but when I got out onto the ice, I could barely keep my blades straight. When I got older, that's how it was with people: In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite. Even with Evan, my boyfriend for junior and most of senior year, I never quite managed to be that skating, twirling, leaping person I suspected I could be. But today, apparently, I can skate.

It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.

Really? Was that how you quit me?

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