Top 400 Gayle Forman Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You’re just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they’re already in us. That’s why we pretend them in the first place.”

— Gayle Forman

52. “I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don’t seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.”

— Gayle Forman

53. “Travelling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.”

— Gayle Forman

54. “You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn’t the same as being in love.”

— Gayle Forman

55. “There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You’ve ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can’t say any of that.”

— Gayle Forman

56. “When a broken bone heals, it’s stronger than it was before the break. Same holds true for broken hearts.”

— Gayle Forman

57. “Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.”

— Gayle Forman

58. “I’ll let you go. If you stay.”

— Gayle Forman

59. “Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.”

— Gayle Forman

60. “I’m so tired of missing things I don’t have.”

— Gayle Forman

61. “No one is who they pretend to be.”

— Gayle Forman

62. “Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.”

— Gayle Forman

63. “Bribes are the glue that’s kept teenagers and parents connected for generations.”

— Gayle Forman

64. “Forever and a day.”

— Gayle Forman

65. “Really? Was that how you quit me?”

— Gayle Forman

66. “What would you do if you had to choose?”

— Gayle Forman

67. “My entire body is shaking. I’m losing it. A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.”

— Gayle Forman

68. “You know that saying about a frog in a pot? How you can put a frog in boiling water and it’ll jump straight out, but if you put a frog in tepid water and slowly increase the heat, it’ll adjust and adjust until it dies?”

— Gayle Forman

69. “There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body. For the first time, I can sense how fully agonizing staying will be.”

— Gayle Forman

70. “Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind. If that’s what dying is like, I wouldn’t mind that at all.”

— Gayle Forman

71. “Can you move on from something when you’re not sure what it is you’re moving on from?”

— Gayle Forman

72. “Unfortunately, sometimes the things we love can also kill us.”

— Gayle Forman

73. “They say that things happen for a reason, but I don’t know that I buy that.”

— Gayle Forman

74. “Maybe we are all inevitable.”

— Gayle Forman

75. “I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don’t know if those two things can both be true, but that’s how it was.”

— Gayle Forman

76. “Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.”

— Gayle Forman

77. “But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.”

— Gayle Forman

78. “And that’s just it, isn’t it? That’s how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.”

— Gayle Forman

79. “I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”

— Gayle Forman

80. “I’ll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed.”

— Gayle Forman

81. “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. I love that you’re fragile and tough, quiet and kick-ass. Hell, you’re one of the punkest girls I know, no matter who you listen to or what you wear.”

— Gayle Forman

82. “These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.”

— Gayle Forman

83. “You win some, you lose some. And sometimes you win and lose at the same time. Life’s a bloody cockup.”

— Gayle Forman

84. “If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.”

— Gayle Forman

85. “Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.”

— Gayle Forman

86. “I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.”

— Gayle Forman

87. “Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times.”

— Gayle Forman

88. “But I’m still standing. I’m still breathing. And somehow, I’m okay.”

— Gayle Forman

89. “You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it’s out of your control -Mia.”

— Gayle Forman

90. “Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours – life is rules by accidents – isn’t that just one huge excuse for passivity?”

— Gayle Forman

91. “The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.”

— Gayle Forman

92. “Barrel 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 She’s the last one standing “Roulette” Collateral Damage, Track 11.”

— Gayle Forman

93. “She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.”

— Gayle Forman

94. “We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I’ve had in my life has been wrong.”

— Gayle Forman

95. “You forget, time doesn’t exist anymore. You gave it to me.”

— Gayle Forman

96. “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

97. “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

98. “La verdad y su opuesto son dos caras de una misma moneda.”

— Gayle Forman

99. “I want you to play me like a cello.”

— Gayle Forman

100. “It’s okay,” he tells me. “If you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I’ve ever wanted anything in my life.” His voice cracks with emotion. He stops, clears his throat, takes a breath, and continues. “But that’s what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So 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