Top 400 Gayle Forman Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I realize then that it’s not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.”

— Gayle Forman

152. “I don’t really care. I shouldn’t have to care. I shouldn’t have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”

— Gayle Forman

153. “I don’t hate you. I don’t think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia.”

— Gayle Forman

154. “I don’t know exactly what’s happened to me, and for the first time today, I don’t really care. I shouldn’t have to care. I shouldn’t have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”

— Gayle Forman

155. “It had to do with the doubts. The same niggling doubts I always had about not belonging. I didn’t feel like I belonged with my family, and now I didn’t feel like I belonged with Adam, except unlike my family, who was stuck with me, Adam had chosen me, and this I didn’t understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn’t make sense.”

— Gayle Forman

156. “I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.”

— Gayle Forman

157. “The music is the void. And you’re the reason why.”

— Gayle Forman

158. “I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for; it’s Lulu too.”

— Gayle Forman

159. “Love can make you immortal.”

— Gayle Forman

160. “Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.”

— Gayle Forman

161. “Pictures can be pretty deceptive.”

— Gayle Forman

162. “That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.”

— Gayle Forman

163. “Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I suppose that’s true.”

— Gayle Forman

164. “Suddenly, it’s all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing’s sacred. Everything’s fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.”

— Gayle Forman

165. “This day, so seared in my memory, is just another day to everyone else.”

— Gayle Forman

166. “And the memories of my life as it was, and the flashes of it as it might be, are coming so fast and furious. I feel like I can no longer keep up with them but they keep coming and everything is colliding, until I cannot take it anymore. Until I cannot be like this one second longer. 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

167. “Why get stained when getting dirty is so much more fun.”

— Gayle Forman

168. “And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.”

— Gayle Forman

169. “Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you’re here, exactly what you want, but you’re unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.”

— Gayle Forman

170. “It’s funny how once you start pretending, you realize how much everyone else is too.”

— Gayle Forman

171. “I was reminded just why God wants us to forgive. Not simply because it’s the key to a better world, but because of what it does for ourselves. Forgiveness is God’s gift to us. Christ forgave us. He forgave our sins. That was his gift. But by allowing us to forgive each other, he opened us up to that divine love. The article had it right. Forgiveness: It’s a miracle drug. It’s God’s miracle drug.”

— Gayle Forman

172. “Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth.”

— Gayle Forman

173. “How can you believe someone to be so beautiful and amazing and just about the most magical person you’ve ever known, when it turns out she was in such pain that she had to drink poison to rob her cells of oxygen until her heart had no choice but to stop beating?”

— Gayle Forman

174. “And there was so much noise. A symphony of grinding, a chorus of popping, an aria of exploding, and finally, the sad clapping of hard metal cutting into soft trees.”

— Gayle Forman

175. “You had a pile of rocks, and you cleaned them up pretty and made a necklace. Meg got jewels, and she hung herself with them.”

— Gayle Forman

176. “It’s an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die.”

— Gayle Forman

177. “Every fiction has its base in fact.”

— Gayle Forman

178. “I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.”

— Gayle Forman

179. “If you stay, I’ll do whatever you want. I’ll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I’ll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it’d be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I’d do it. I can lose you like that if I don’t lose you today. I’ll let you go. If you stay.”

— Gayle Forman

180. “You need people who will give you the food from their plate because they feel your hunger, who will refuse to let you wander off alone no matter how many times you say it’s all good.”

— Gayle Forman

181. “There is a world of difference, Lulu, between falling in love and being in love.”

— Gayle Forman

182. “I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn’t have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.”

— Gayle Forman

183. “I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don’t put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.”

— Gayle Forman

184. “My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night’s performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.”

— Gayle Forman

185. “Just as, she now understands, Nathaniel’s loss has somehow merged with her own. It sounds like a burden, to take this on, but really, it’s the opposite. To be the holder of other people’s loss is to be the keeper of their love. To share your loss with people is another way of giving your love.”

— Gayle Forman

186. “Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It’s just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I don’t know when exactly I started giving myself this daily pep talk – or why.”

— Gayle Forman

187. “Life can be hard and beautiful and messy, but hopefully, it will be long. If it is, you will see that it’s unpredictable, and that the dark periods comes, but they abate – sometimes with a lot of support – and the tunnel widens, allowing the sun back in. If you’re in the dark, it might feel like you will always be there. Fumbling. Alone. But you won’t – and you’re not.”

— Gayle Forman

188. “Knowing that something bad is going to happen, whether you want it to or not, to the point that you just want it to happen so you can stop dreading it.”

— Gayle Forman

189. “I learned that childhood rhyme or the dictum that demanded you scratch your head every time you heard a siren, lest the next siren be for you. But I do know when I started doing it, and now it’s become second nature. Still, in a place like Manhattan, where the sirens are always blaring, it can become exhausting to keep up.”

— Gayle Forman

190. “And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it’s my voice this time and it’s asking a question: How does she know?”

— Gayle Forman

191. “But in my family, playing music was still more important than the type of music you played, so when after a few months it became clear that my love for the cello was no passing crush, my parents rented me one so I could practice at home. Rusty scales and triads.”

— Gayle Forman

192. “And our lips. There isn’t enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.”

— Gayle Forman

193. “Sickness leading to healing. The truth and its opposite again.”

— Gayle Forman

194. “Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.”

— Gayle Forman

195. “I know that unlike that night, tonight I won’t kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close. Tonight, I’ll listen. And that’ll be enough.”

— Gayle Forman

196. “Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam’s face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.”

— Gayle Forman

197. “Forgivenesss: It’s a miracle drug. It’s God’s miracle drug.”

— Gayle Forman

198. “It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.”

— Gayle Forman

199. “Travelling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it.”

— Gayle Forman

200. “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. If it’s any comfort, after a while, when it didn’t feel necessary anymore, when it felt hugely wrong, all I was left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you.”

— Gayle Forman