Top 400 Gayle Forman Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn’t the same as being in love.”

— Gayle Forman

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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

55. “I’ll let you go. If you stay.”

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

61. “Forever and a day.”

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

64. “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

65. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

67. “Maybe we are all inevitable.”

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

69. “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

70. “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

71. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

78. “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

79. “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

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

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

— Gayle Forman

83. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

85. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

87. “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

88. “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

89. “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

90. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

92. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

94. “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

95. “Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it’s the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.”

— Gayle Forman

96. “There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.”

— Gayle Forman

97. “Hate me. Devastate me. Annihilate me. Re-create me. Re-create me. Won’t you, won’t you won’t you re-create me.”

— Gayle Forman

98. “I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.”

— Gayle Forman

99. “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.”

— Gayle Forman

100. “But I’d do it again. I know that now. I’d make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she’s somewhere out there. Alive.”

— Gayle Forman