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Gayle Forman Quotes | Quotes said by Gayle Forman

  • Gayle Forman Quote #1

    ...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then someone came along and showed me there was a door in the room. One that I'd never even seen before. Then he opened it for me. Held my hand as I walked through it. And for one perfect day, I was on the other side. I was somewhere else. Someone else. And then he was gone, and I was thrown back into my little room. And now, no matter what I do, I can't seem to find that door.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #2

    ...I don't want to lose you because of the f**ked-up way I found you.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #3

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

  • Gayle Forman Quote #4

    ...Sleepovers and dance parties and those talks we would have until three in the morning that would make us feel lousy the next day because we’d slept like hell but also feel good because the talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #5

    A journey of 1,000 miles starts with just 10 digits.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #6

    A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #7

    Accidents. It's all about the accidents.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #8

    Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #9

    Adam's lips are set in a grime line. I can't tell if he's about to cry or about to punch the guard. For his sake, I hope it's the former. For you own, I hope the latter.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #10

    After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #11

    After that, I became kind of fascinated by her and by what I guessed was her ability to hear music in the silence. Back then, I'd wanted to be able to do that, too. So I took to watching her play, and though I told myself the reason for my attention was because she was as dedicated a musician as I was and that she was cute, the truth was that I also wanted to understand what she heard in the silence.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #12

    Ali sada shvacam da je umrijeti lako. Teško je živjeti.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #13

    Alice goes into the kitchen and returns with a cup of coffee for me, which she announces is free-range and fair-trade and shade-farmed in Malawi, and I nod along as if my coffee needs go beyond hot and caffeinated.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #14

    Allyson meanwhile is remembering. Why this person? All the things she has told herself, or other people have told her - infatuation or Paris or good acting or lust - no longer hold water, because she remembers so viscerally and feels it anew. It's not any of that. It's not even him. Or all him. It's her. The way she can be with him.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #15

    Almost don't matter. You got to deal with the situation at hand.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #16

    And it was like I knew, and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #17

    And just in general, I'm better. Better than I've been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn't break my hear. But I'm beginning to wonder if in some roundabout way, she fixed it.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #18

    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.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #19

    And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #20

    Annoyance has made me bilingual.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #21

    At the start of the trip, I took shots of the sights. The Colosseum. Belvedere Palace. Mozart Square. But I stopped. They never came out very well, and you could get postcards of these things.
    But there are no postcards of this. Of life.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #22

    But Dad looked delighted. My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?

  • Gayle Forman Quote #23

    But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #24

    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.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #25

    But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #26

    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.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #27

    But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away.

    He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #28

    But then one time, you track down an email address and you're near a computer with Internet access so you don't have that nice cushion and you type what you're feeling and press send before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it. And then you wait, and wait, and wait, and nothing comes back, so all those things you thought were so important to say, really, they weren't. They weren't worth saying at all.

  • Gayle Forman Quote #29

    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?

  • Gayle Forman Quote #30

    C'mon, Mee,' Henry said. 'You're among family.' 'Totally,' Kim said.

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