Top 400 Gayle Forman Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

105. “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

106. “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

107. “Firefly, it is an act of bravery to feel your feelings. Oh, Meg would’ve loved that. It’s an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die.”

— Gayle Forman

108. “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

109. “Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren’t expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.”

— Gayle Forman

110. “There are so many ways to live, to define what living means for you and you alone. We are so narrow in our thinking, and once you understand that, once you decide to not abide by these artificial constraints, anything is possible and you are so liberated.”

— Gayle Forman

111. “You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you’re angry, but you can’t blame me. You can’t hate me for taking your word.”

— Gayle Forman

112. “A careful man tries to dodge the bullets, while a happy man takes a walk.”

— Gayle Forman

113. “No estoy segura de que este mundo siga siendo mi sitio. no estoy segura de querer despertarme.”

— Gayle Forman

114. “Stains are even worse when you’re the only one who can see them.”

— Gayle Forman

115. “It’s funny the things you think you’re scared of until they’re upon you, and then you’re not.”

— Gayle Forman

116. “This is the you I like. You definitely dressed sexier and are, you know, blond, and that’s different. But the you who 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.”

— Gayle Forman

117. “Or maybe it’s not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.”

— Gayle Forman

118. “You talked to me, but you didn’t. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to me. And the words that actually came out.”

— Gayle Forman

119. “I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.”

— Gayle Forman

120. “Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won’t feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”

— Gayle Forman

121. “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

122. “Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I’d bottle and wear as perfume if I could.”

— Gayle Forman

123. “I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.”

— Gayle Forman

124. “All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.”

— Gayle Forman

125. “Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?”

— Gayle Forman

126. “Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.”

— Gayle Forman

127. “It’s ok if you want to stop fighting.”

— Gayle Forman

128. “I’ve become to realize there’s a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.”

— Gayle Forman

129. “We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn’t entirely understand the other person’s obsession, it didn’t matter, because we understood our own.”

— Gayle Forman

130. “I failed her in life. But I won’t fail her in death.”

— Gayle Forman

131. “Whoever said that the past isn’t dead had it backward. It’s the future that’s already dead, already played out.”

— Gayle Forman

132. “But it’s a big ocean. It’s an even bigger world. And maybe we’ve gotten as close as we’re supposed to get.”

— Gayle Forman

133. “And I bet she’ll be a stronger person because of what she’s lost today. I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.”

— Gayle Forman

134. “I can’t imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head – the comfort that would’ve brought.”

— Gayle Forman

135. “Her eyes flutter up to meet mine. “Are you hungry?”she asks. Am I ever.”

— Gayle Forman

136. “Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?”

— Gayle Forman

137. “She said if she couldn’t play, she had nothing left. What about me?”

— Gayle Forman

138. “Two oceans between us. And still not enough.”

— Gayle Forman

139. “He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.”

— Gayle Forman

140. “But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it’s frozen shut.”

— Gayle Forman

141. “I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.”

— Gayle Forman

142. “Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely.”

— Gayle Forman

143. “I don’t know how to be a friend. I don’t know how to be anything.”

— Gayle Forman

144. “A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.”

— Gayle Forman

145. “In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia’s a part of our history, and we’re among the shards of her legacy.”

— Gayle Forman

146. “She’s still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Byrn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that’s always been devastating to me.”

— Gayle Forman

147. “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.”

— Gayle Forman

148. “Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.”

— Gayle Forman

149. “It’s just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That’s how life works.”

— Gayle Forman

150. “Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you’ve built yourself a different one.”

— Gayle Forman