Top 400 Gayle Forman Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Adam has about a foot and fifty pounds on Kim, but after stumbling for a second, she adjusts to the added burden. She bears it.”

— Gayle Forman

352. “Because the hard part of falling down is not the falling down, or the getting back up. It’s seeing what happens to the people you fall on. You get bruised; they get flattened.”

— Gayle Forman

353. “My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I’m mad at myself.”

— Gayle Forman

354. “I look at Ben now. And again I wonder how it is that we can feel so many of the same things and be so utterly different.”

— Gayle Forman

355. “You must not waste your one day here. When the sun shines, you let it shine on you. Snow is always waiting.”

— Gayle Forman

356. “Because it doesn’t seem like living to me, it seems like persevering, like it’s the most I can hope for.”

— Gayle Forman

357. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I read the opening lines of the book, and it’s like my own pages are coming unstuck. For so long, all I’ve felt is fear, and all this time, it was grief. I continue reading, remembering why I used to love books. Because they show us, in so many words, and so many worlds, that we are not alone. A miracle, in twenty-six letters.”

— Gayle Forman

358. “But if that’s what happens to normal, what hope is there for the rest of us?” I ask him.”

— Gayle Forman

359. “Allyson sees Willem’s face, his panic, and she knows he is misreading her. But she is helpless to explain right now. Words have left her. She is emotion only.”

— Gayle Forman

360. “It’s very inconvenient to fall in love when you’re so young.”

— Gayle Forman

361. “Alice goes into the kitchen and returns with a cup of coffee for me, which she announces is free-range and fair-trade and shade-farmed in Malawi, and I nod along as if my coffee needs go beyond hot and caffeinated.”

— Gayle Forman

362. “And secrets crave fissures, until the fissures become trenches, and the trenches become channels, and the channels become crevasses, and suddenly you are alone, on a block of ice, separated from everyone you care about.”

— Gayle Forman

363. “Sophie wondered when was she going to learn that lots of things seem like a good idea but a small amount of analysis might uncover that such seemingly good ideas are, in fact, intrinsically faulty.”

— Gayle Forman

364. “He sort of breathes music.”

— Gayle Forman

365. “The words are so full of smoke and mirrors that it’s impossible to find a real person behind them.”

— Gayle Forman

366. “Mom and I made three pies with wild blackberries that Teddy and I had picked.”

— Gayle Forman

367. “We drank Pepsi out of these old-fashioned bottles that Dad had found at some ancient country store, and I swear they tasted better than the regular kind.”

— Gayle Forman

368. “Maybe if I’d had some practice, maybe if I’d had more devastation in my life, I would be more prepared to go on.”

— Gayle Forman

369. “He talks about despair, how it drives in silence.”

— Gayle Forman

370. “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 come, but they abate – sometimes with a lot of support – and the tunnel widens, allowing the sun back in.”

— Gayle Forman

371. “More and more lately it seems as though the majority of my conversations are with myself.”

— Gayle Forman

372. “And her voice, it’s exactly the same. I don’t know why I’d expect it to be different except that everything’s different now.”

— Gayle Forman

373. “Twenty-six letters and some punctuation marks and you have infinite words in infinite worlds. How is that not a miracle?”

— Gayle Forman

374. “Why had she asked a mirror – or anyone for that matter – to tell her who she was?”

— Gayle Forman

375. “I never really bought in 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

376. “Adam strummed an unfamiliar melody. I asked him what he was playing. “I’m calling it ‘My-Girlfriend’s-Going-to-Julliard-Leaving-My-Punk-Heart-in-Shreds Blues.”

— Gayle Forman

377. “In destroying ourselves, we also learn to create ourselves.”

— Gayle Forman

378. “There are pictures of Kim and Mia from high school and one of the two of them posing on top of the Empire State Building – a jolting reminder that their relationship wasn’t truncated, they have a history of which I know nothing.”

— Gayle Forman

379. “You know, the portrait gallery is full of paintings of men who’ve killed those who have wronged them,” Elsinora said. “But they’re not called villains. They’re called heroes.”

— Gayle Forman

380. “There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we’re all your family.”

— Gayle Forman

381. “I continue reading, remembering why I used to love books. Because they show us, in so many words, and so many worlds, that we are not alone.”

— Gayle Forman

382. “When you watch, you are a spectator, but when you read, you’re a participant.”

— Gayle Forman

383. “I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.”

— Gayle Forman

384. “Yo Mama better watch his back,” he said.”

— Gayle Forman

385. “Ride of the Valkyries.”

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386. “I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it’s out of your control.”

— Gayle Forman

387. “Eu deixo-te ir. Se ficares.”

— Gayle Forman

388. “I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure. It’s no big dramatic before-after. It’s more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times. – Adam.”

— Gayle Forman

389. “Fingers of light are starting to pry open the night sky.”

— Gayle Forman

390. “Dar as intelege daca alegi dragostea, dragostea pentru Adam in detrimentul dragostei pentru muzica. Orice ai alege, castigi. Si, orice ai alege, pierzi. Ce pot sa-ti spun? Dragostea e dificila.”

— Gayle Forman

391. “The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it’s like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.”

— Gayle Forman

392. “The sun is starting to dip to the west, a bright blaring ball tilting toward the Hudson and leaving a collage of peach and purple streaks across the sky.”

— Gayle Forman

393. “I can lose you like that, if I don’t lose you today. I’ll let you go. If you stay.” – Adam Wilde, If I Stay.”

— Gayle Forman

394. “I have this theory that almost everything in the world can be divided into two groups.”

— Gayle Forman

395. “You’ve got me believing in a great good place.”

— Gayle Forman

396. “I look at her there in the shadows of the shut-down city, her hair falling onto her face, and I can see her trying to figure out if I’ve lost it.”

— Gayle Forman

397. “She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. ‘You still have a family,’ she whispers.”

— Gayle Forman

398. “They evolved into birds.”

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399. “Teddy had taken his shirt off and had streaked himself with mud. Dad said he looked like one of the boys from Lord of the Flies.”

— Gayle Forman

400. “Quando eravamo soli potevamo parlare per ore o starcene semplicemente a leggere un libro, ciascuno con il proprio ipod, senza per questo sentirci distanti.”

— Gayle Forman