Top 400 Gayle Forman Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Because it doesn’t seem like living to me, it seems like persevering, like it’s the most I can hope for.”

— Gayle Forman

352. “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

353. “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.”

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

355. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

357. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

359. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

362. “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

363. “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

364. “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

365. “He sort of breathes music.”

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

368. “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

369. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

371. “Unfortunately, sometimes the things we love can also kill us.”

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

373. “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

374. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

376. “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

377. “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

378. “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

379. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

381. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

384. “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

385. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

387. “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

388. “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

389. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

392. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

394. “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

395. “Ride of the Valkyries.”

— Gayle Forman

396. “I’ve got news for you, Mia. There’s going to be all kinds of terrible in there, so you won’t really stand out,” Mom said.”

— Gayle Forman

397. “It wasn’t even a fight, really. We didn’t shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.”

— Gayle Forman

398. “Are all movies books first?” “Just the best ones.”

— Gayle Forman

399. “I have that floppy calm that follows a cry.”

— Gayle Forman

400. “I think I’m a little wigged out that I’ve been more intimate with your dad than I have with you.”

— Gayle Forman