Top 400 Gayle Forman Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “So this was how it was. People entered your life. Some would stay. Some would not. Some would drift but would return to you.”

— Gayle Forman

302. “After that, I became kind of fascinated by her and by what I guessed was her ability to hear music in the silence. Back then, I’d wanted to be able to do that, too. So I took to watching her play, and though I told myself the reason for my attention was because she was as dedicated a musician as I was and that she was cute, the truth was that I also wanted to understand what she heard in the silence.”

— Gayle Forman

303. “I recognized that the kiss was a door I had walked through.”

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304. “You don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.”

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305. “It’s courageous to go into territory unknown.”

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306. “I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter.”

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307. “She looks at me, square in the eye. Taking aim. And then she pulls the trigger. “Because I hated you.”

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308. “I needed to be somewhere where people wouldn’t be sad, where the thoughts concerned life, not death.”

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309. “It’s just that we’d like to think that craziness and sanity are on opposite ends of an ocean, but really they’re more like neighboring islands.”

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310. “You type what you’re feeling and press send before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it. And then you wait, and wait, and wait, and nothing comes back, so all those things you thought were so important to say, really, they weren’t. They weren’t worth saying at all.”

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311. “But then one time, you track down an email address and you’re near a computer with Internet access so you don’t have that nice cushion and you type what you’re feeling and press send before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it. And then you wait, and wait, and wait, and nothing comes back, so all those things you thought were so important to say, really, they weren’t. They weren’t worth saying at all.”

— Gayle Forman

312. “When you’re on the road, there is awlays the promise of the next stop being better than the last.”

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313. “My dad used to say that when I was born I looked so totally familiar.”

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314. “In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite.”

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315. “I’ve never toughened up enough to handle what I’d have to handle if I were to stay.”

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316. “Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his lips are soft and his kiss is gentle, it feels like a knife jamming into the electrical socket. It feels like the moment when I go live.”

— Gayle Forman

317. “You never knew, did you? Maybe not knowing didn’t have to be so terrifying. Maybe it could just be life. “When.”

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318. “She felt almost tearfully grateful to be off the hook, and residually angry because she was always on the hook.”

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319. “So dark you almost miss it.”

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320. “That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.”

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321. “I only need a second. So I can show her that I’m here. That someone’s still here.”

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322. “I think we were both aware that we were falling in love. I thought that getting to this part was the challenge. In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed.”

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323. “This place is not about fixing you. It’s about warehousing you while your clueless parents are bilked out of thousands of dollars.”

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324. “I understand then that giving me the computer is not really a gift. But maybe my taking it is.”

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325. “Karma’s not like a bank. Make a deposit, take a withdrawal. But more and more, I am starting to suspect that all this is payback for something – only not the good kind.”

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326. “I’m not crying because of how much I hurt. I’m crying because of how much I feel.”

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327. “I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival.”

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328. “Every fiction has its base in fact,” he tells her.”

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329. “A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.”

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330. “I wasn’t in danger today,” I tell him in a choked voice. “I escaped danger today.” And I did... I feel like the whole day has been an electrical shock, paddles straight to my heart, bringing me out of a lifelong torpor I hadn’t even known I was in. “I escaped,” I repeat.”

— Gayle Forman

331. “And I realize that before there’s a next, there’s a now that needs attending to.”

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332. “Almost don’t matter. You got to deal with the situation at hand.”

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333. “Everyone loves New York City for all these different reasons. The culture. The mix of people. The pace. The food. But for me, it’s like one epic Easter egg hunt. You’re always finding these little surprises around every corner.”

— Gayle Forman

334. “For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.”

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335. “We’ll tell our secrets to the dark.”

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336. “She was in a free fall now. And it wasn’t killing her. In fact, she was beginning to wonder if she might’ve had it backwards. All that fixating on the fall... maybe she should’ve been paying more attention to the free.”

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337. “Of all the things and people she missed lately, it was odd to find herself at the top of the list.”

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338. “She mock shudders the way you do when you talk about someone’s misfortunes that have nothing to do with you, that don’t touch you, and never will. I’ve never hit a woman in my life, but for one minute I want to punch her in the face, give her a taste of the pain she’s so casually describing.”

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339. “11:47, positively crack-of-dawn for me.”

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340. “The talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life.”

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341. “It’s the hoping that makes it hurt.”

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342. “You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn’t the same as being in love... This is being in love. It’s something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to.”

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343. “Do you honestly think that where you’re buried has any bearing on where your spirit lives?”

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344. “To dream is the ultimate dare, is it not?”

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345. “Willem has just glanced at the birthmark on Allyson’s wrist, giving him an urgent desire to taste it again. Between her feet and her wrist, he is having a hard time getting out the door.”

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346. “Not sure there is such a thing as a minor miracle.”

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347. “Annoyance has made me bilingual.”

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348. “But by the way he’s looking at everything in the room but me, I think he knows that he didn’t really explain why. And by the way I’m looking at everything in the room but him, I know that I don’t really need him to.”

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349. “I lost them, too. Except even back then, it had been different, like there’d been a barrier. That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.”

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350. “It was so new that day: the liberation of being honest, of being brave, maybe a little stupid.”

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