Top 400 Gayle Forman Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I’ve ever done.”

— Gayle Forman

252. “He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people’s capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I’m floored every time.”

— Gayle Forman

253. “Poetry isn’t math was our battle cry.”

— Gayle Forman

254. “I’m not. I just think you might be reading too much into a musical selection.”

— Gayle Forman

255. “If you could know going in that twenty-five years of love would break you in the end, would you risk it? Because isn’t it inevitable? When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you’ll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.”

— Gayle Forman

256. “But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture.”

— Gayle Forman

257. “There is so much to say. It is like shoving all the sand of the world into an hourglass. Or trying to get it out.”

— Gayle Forman

258. “We’ll just be the kinds of girls who have boyfriends in college.”

— Gayle Forman

259. “I’m crying out of gratitude.”

— Gayle Forman

260. “Accidents. It’s all about the accidents.”

— Gayle Forman

261. “This isn’t about her. It was catalyzed by her, and she’s woven up in it, but this is ultimately about him and his life and what he needs to do to make himself whole. He’s stopped drifting, he’s stopped being tossed around by the wind.”

— Gayle Forman

262. “I am running the show. Everyone is waiting for me. I decide. I know this now.”

— Gayle Forman

263. “All night long if you want. We’ll tell our secrets to the dark.”

— Gayle Forman

264. “The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there.”

— Gayle Forman

265. “I was tired of being in the charge of cruel and clueless adults. The world was upside down. The adults had abandoned their roles. They’d surrounded themselves in a cocoon of ignorance – and then told us we were screwed up. We couldn’t trust them anymore. There was nobody out there watching out for us, taking care of us. We had to look out for ourselves.”

— Gayle Forman

266. “A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.”

— Gayle Forman

267. “I’ve always said it’s better to be hated than it is to be ignored. Maybe on the same lines, it’s better to feel this than to feel nothing.”

— Gayle Forman

268. “Some things are impossible to tear yourself away from.”

— Gayle Forman

269. “That’s when I figured out the ugly secret of a mother’s love: you protect them to protect yourself.”

— Gayle Forman

270. “The best day of my life was one I never even saw coming.”

— Gayle Forman

271. “El amor no es algo que proteges. Es algo por lo que arriesgas.”

— Gayle Forman

272. “Backstage, Willem is thinking about accidents again. And things that seemingly don’t make sense, except they do. Like right out there in the fifth row. All of them, together. That makes sense.”

— Gayle Forman

273. “Do you really think that if you don’t mention my family I’ll forget them?”

— Gayle Forman

274. “You thought too hard. Same with travel. 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

275. “The rain falls endlessly, and even on the hottest of summer days, blooming white cumulus clouds float above, their shadows reminding you that summer’s heat is fleeting, and the rain’s never far off.”

— Gayle Forman

276. “I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.”

— Gayle Forman

277. “Saying goodbye is less fraught this time. They have done it now once, like normal people: leave, come back. It builds confidence.”

— Gayle Forman

278. “What’s that sound I hear? It’s just my lifetime It’s whistling past my ear.”

— Gayle Forman

279. “It’s a good thing Kerry’s dead, because that funeral would’ve sent him over the edge,” Henry said.”

— Gayle Forman

280. “I’ve always known where to find you, Cody.”

— Gayle Forman

281. “Meg invited me to come again, but I always had reasons why I couldn’t: my schedule was busy, bus fare wasn’t cheap. Both of which were true, even if they weren’t the truth.”

— Gayle Forman

282. “I didn’t understand then. Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.”

— Gayle Forman

283. “I’d wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that.”

— Gayle Forman

284. “Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.”

— Gayle Forman

285. “Sometimes you don’t even need to be in the same room for the damage to be done.”

— Gayle Forman

286. “They say that things happen for a reason, but I don’t know that I buy that. I don’t know that I’ll ever see a reason for what happened to Kat, Denny, and Teddy that day.”

— Gayle Forman

287. “Something tickles inside me, an echo from another time when it wasn’t all frozen in there.”

— Gayle Forman

288. “That’s all we can do, Brit. Take steps. Take enough of them and suddenly, you’re somewhere.”

— Gayle Forman

289. “And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn’t be easy.”

— Gayle Forman

290. “In a funny way, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine. Because even though he had blue hair and tattoos and wore leather jackets and worked in a record store, he wanted to marry Mom back at a time when the rest of their friends were still having drunken one-night stands. “Girlfriend is such a stupid word,” he said. “I couldn’t stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her “wife”’.”

— Gayle Forman

291. “Pieces of my father’s brain are on the asphalt.”

— Gayle Forman

292. “It had given me a bad feeling, though I wasn’t sure if it was because I was scared I wasn’t going to find him, or scared of just what I might find.”

— Gayle Forman

293. “Close your eyes, think of the year ahead. This is your chance. This can be the day it all changes.”

— Gayle Forman

294. “Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths – maybe because they are easier than truths.”

— Gayle Forman

295. “What about your parents? You can’t let them down? Even if it means letting yourself down? Which I doubt they’d want for you. I understand about wanting to please your parents, to make them proud. It’s a noble impulse, and I commend you for it. But at the end of the day, it’s your education. You have to own it. And you should enjoy it.”

— Gayle Forman

296. “I recently lost someone. Someone so integral to me, it’s like a part of me is gone. And now I don’t know how to be anymore. If there’s even a me without her. It’s like she was my sun, and then my sun went out. Imagine if the real sun went out. Maybe there’d still be life on Earth, but would you still want to live here? Do I still want to live here?”

— Gayle Forman

297. “I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he’s from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it’s me. Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.”

— Gayle Forman

298. “I’m waging a tug of war, but no one else is holding the other end of the rope.”

— Gayle Forman

299. “Pete and Repeat went out in a boat. Pete fell out. Who was saved?”

— Gayle Forman

300. “He can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him to be.”

— Gayle Forman