Top 400 Gayle Forman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”

— Gayle Forman

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2. “Fake it till you make it actually worked.”

— Gayle Forman

3. “People believe what they want to believe.”

— Gayle Forman

4. “I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”

— Gayle Forman

5. “If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me.”

— Gayle Forman

6. “Forward momentum. That’s my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.”

— Gayle Forman

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7. “Fake it ’till you make it.”

— Gayle Forman

8. “Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.”

— Gayle Forman

9. “Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.”

— Gayle Forman

10. “If you can’t trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?”

— Gayle Forman

11. “Anything can happen in one day.”

— Gayle Forman

12. “It’s quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people’s dreams.”

— Gayle Forman

13. “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

14. “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.”

— Gayle Forman

15. “When the sun shines, you let it shine on you.”

— Gayle Forman

16. “You don’t share me. You own me.”

— Gayle Forman

17. “C’est courageux d’aller dans l’inconnu’: It is courageous to go into territory unknown.”

— Gayle Forman

18. “You just work through it. You just hang in there.”

— Gayle Forman

19. “Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that’s the beauty of it, too.”

— Gayle Forman

20. “If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they’d tell.”

— Gayle Forman

21. “Sacrifice, that’s what we do for the people we love.”

— Gayle Forman

22. “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

23. “A veces hay que elegir en la vida, y a veces la vida te elige a ti.”

— Gayle Forman

24. “Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal.”

— Gayle Forman

25. “Part of me knows one more day won’t do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”

— Gayle Forman

26. “I’m surrounded by people and feel alone.”

— Gayle Forman

27. “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.”

— Gayle Forman

28. “We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.”

— Gayle Forman

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29. “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.”

— Gayle Forman

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30. “It doesn’t rain every day. Just every other day.”

— Gayle Forman

31. “Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.”

— Gayle Forman

32. “A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen.”

— Gayle Forman

33. “L’chaim!’: To life!”

— Gayle Forman

34. “Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that’s the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.”

— Gayle Forman

35. “You’ll get through it. I know you seem like you won’t, but you will.”

— Gayle Forman

36. “I’m not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I’m not sure that I want to wake up.”

— Gayle Forman

37. “I don’t know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don’t want to be her anymore.”

— Gayle Forman

38. “I’m not choosing, but I’m running out of fight.”

— Gayle Forman

39. “You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.”

— Gayle Forman

40. “Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”

— Gayle Forman

41. “It’s just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. – Adam.”

— Gayle Forman

42. “You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don’t.”

— Gayle Forman

43. “Anything that kills hope is a sin.”

— Gayle Forman

44. “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.”

— Gayle Forman

45. “Obey the muse, Liz said. She’s a fickle mistress.”

— Gayle Forman

46. “In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person’s absence will affect you more than another’s.”

— Gayle Forman

47. “My husband used to say that scars were like tattoos but with better stories.” “I.”

— Gayle Forman

48. “We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king’s horses and all these king’s men cannot put us back together again.”

— Gayle Forman

49. “In the lead-up to the launch of my new book I Was Here, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about depression and suicide and mental health and YA dealing with such intense matters. What I haven’t seen discussed is kittens.”

— Gayle Forman

50. “Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.” You have taken your first step, not toward death but toward a different way of living your life. That itself is the definition of fearless.”

— Gayle Forman