Top 400 Gayle Forman Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Yeah, but some things you can’t control, no matter how hard you try.”

— Gayle Forman

202. “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.”

— Gayle Forman

203. “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

204. “How can it be so unclear to her when it’s like the fingers on my hand to me?”

— Gayle Forman

205. “Days like these go on for years. It’s the ones you want to last that slip away – one, two, three – in seconds.”

— Gayle Forman

206. “And it took me by surprise how much I wanted to be kissed by him, to realize that I’d thought about it so often that I’d memorized the exact shape of his lips, that I’d imagined running my finger down the cleft of his chin.”

— Gayle Forman

207. “Su sonrisa es como un chocolate fundido. Es como un solo de guitarra de puta madre. Es todo lo bueno que hay en este mundo.”

— Gayle Forman

208. “A thousand suns rise from my chest.”

— Gayle Forman

209. “I wake up this morning to a thin blanket of white covering our front lawn. It isn’t even an inch, but in this part of Oregon a slight dusting brings everything to a standstill as the one snowplow in the county.”

— Gayle Forman

210. “Sometimes you can’t know until you know.”

— Gayle Forman

211. “Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.”

— Gayle Forman

212. “Look I accept Adam because you love him. And I assume he accepts me because you love me... your love binds us.’... The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim’s notion that they were somehow bound together through me- until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor.”

— Gayle Forman

213. “Her voice jolts me back to reality. Back to the reality of the past three years. 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

214. “No hay palabras para lo que te ha ocurrido. No hay nada positivo. Pero tienes algo por lo que vivir.”

— Gayle Forman

215. “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... 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

216. “And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.”

— Gayle Forman

217. “My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.”

— Gayle Forman

218. “And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons.”

— Gayle Forman

219. “Closure. I loathe that word.”

— Gayle Forman

220. “So, this is how it’s become? This is how I’ve become? A walking contradiction? I’m surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it’s like I don’t know what to do with it, I don’t know how to be a normal person anymore.”

— Gayle Forman

221. “I’ve never seen anyone cry like this. Quiet but gushing, a faucet behind his eyes mysteriously turned on.”

— Gayle Forman

222. “Her eyes were open, then on me again like they never left.”

— Gayle Forman

223. “And then I went to take my mouth to hers, to devour her alive, to transmit all the things she can’t understand.”

— Gayle Forman

224. “Why not? Tell me. You owe me this!” She looks at me, square in the eye. Taking aim. And then she pulls the trigger. “Because I hated you.” The wind, the noise it all just goes quiet for a second, and I’m left with a dull ringing in my ear, like a after a show, like a after a heart monitor goes to flatline. “Hated me? Why?” “Because you made me stay.”

— Gayle Forman

225. “Me gustaba tan poco pisar en falso como iniciar a tientas un nuevo movimiento. Por eso practicaba tanto, para encontrarme en terreno seguro y perfeccionar luego los detalles.”

— Gayle Forman

226. “She’s generous as an oil baron and loyal as a pit bull.”

— Gayle Forman

227. “Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can’t trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me.”

— Gayle Forman

228. “The little things that happen. Sometimes they’re insignificant; other times, they change everything.”

— Gayle Forman

229. “Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.”

— Gayle Forman

230. “The day is ending; it’s not coming back.”

— Gayle Forman

231. “The rain keeps up throughout the next day. “Lovely English summer we’re having,” everyone jokes.”

— Gayle Forman

232. “Then he gave a sad little smile. “Yo Mama better watch his back,” he said.”

— Gayle Forman

233. “She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me.”

— Gayle Forman

234. “I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.”

— Gayle Forman

235. “I pull her to me. A thousand suns rise from my chest.”

— Gayle Forman

236. “About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.”

— Gayle Forman

237. “I’m also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I’m on wasn’t to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.”

— Gayle Forman

238. “Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.”

— Gayle Forman

239. “But I’m also feeling all that I have in my life, which includes what I have lost, as well as the great unknown of what life might still bring me. And it’s all too much. The feelings pile up, threatening to crack my chest wide open.”

— Gayle Forman

240. “Mia,” Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. “You’re starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?”

— Gayle Forman

241. “It’s an act of bravery to feel your feelings.”

— Gayle Forman

242. “Adam had chosen me, and this I didn’t understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn’t make sense.”

— Gayle Forman

243. “They may be complete strangers, with different lives and different problems, but there in that examination room they are measuring sadness the same way. They are measuring it in loss.”

— Gayle Forman

244. “Concert’ doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.”

— Gayle Forman

245. “How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?”

— Gayle Forman

246. “She wears the braid every day and always, by lunchtime, the curls and ringlets of her thick mane have managed to escape in rebellious little tendrils. But she refuses to surrender to that hair of hers, and every morning, it goes back into the braid.”

— Gayle Forman

247. “And if I’m not forgiven, then at least I’m understood.”

— Gayle Forman

248. “I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.”

— Gayle Forman

249. “One day she told me that they’d decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.”

— Gayle Forman

250. “A wicked sense of humor, this one.”

— Gayle Forman