Top 400 Gayle Forman Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “I mean, does anybody read anymore?”

— Gayle Forman

402. “Kim ever so slightly rolled her eyes, which made me want to throw a dictionary at her.”

— Gayle Forman

403. “There was a kind of tough that could swim in the cold Pacific, and then there was the kind of tough Frankie was.”

— Gayle Forman

404. “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

405. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

409. “Adoram fotografiile alea. Intotdeauna iti taiau capul pe jumatate sau erau intunecate de degetul cuiva, dar pareau sa prinda ceva veritabil.”

— Gayle Forman

410. “They can’t explain it. But that doesn’t make it any less real.”

— Gayle Forman

411. “Kim doesn’t ask any more questions after that. They sit there in silence, each lost in their own thoughts, and it reminds me of how Adam and I can be together but quiet and separate and I realize that they’re friends now, friends for real. No matter what happens, at least I have achieved that.”

— Gayle Forman

412. “But it was such a calming silence; it made me relax and feel closer to him than any heart-to-heart would have.”

— Gayle Forman

413. “Ira may be the Giving Tree, but the boy with the ax who chops him down, branch by branch – that’s me.”

— Gayle Forman

414. “The words he writes to his music, they’re poetry.”

— Gayle Forman

415. “I cannot scream until my throat hurts or break a window with my fist until my hand bleeds, or pull my hair out in clumps until the pain in my scalp overcomes the one in my heart.”

— Gayle Forman

416. “I thought of what Mom sometimes said to me when I was feeling insecure: “Fake it till you make it.”

— Gayle Forman

417. “You don’t need to be good; you just need to be committed.”

— Gayle Forman

418. “Like us,” I repeat. “Are the answers to all life’s questions in books?”

— Gayle Forman

419. “As he played on, the energy magnified; the tuning fork going crazy now, firing off vibrations all over, until my entire body was humming, until I was left breathless. And when I felt like I could not take it one more minute, the swirl of sensations hit a dizzying crescendo, sending every nerve ending in my body on high alert.”

— Gayle Forman

420. “I’m pretty sure that when babies are born in Oregon, they leave the hospital with birth certificates – and teeny-tiny sleeping bags.”

— Gayle Forman

421. “She says that the world is divided into the people who imagine their own funerals and the people who don’t, and that smart and artistic people naturally fall into the former category.”

— Gayle Forman

422. “After he leaves, we both kill a few minutes drowning our fries and the conversation in ketchup.”

— Gayle Forman

423. “It makes me happy to imagine them drinking tea or going to the movies together, still connected to each other by the invisible chain of a family that no longer exists.”

— Gayle Forman

424. “I love that you’re fragile and tough, quiet and kick-ass. Hell, you’re one of the punkest girls I know, no matter who you listen to or what you wear.”

— Gayle Forman

425. “Shouldn’t I stay? Soldier through it? 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. It’s not that my life has been perfect. I’ve had disappointments and I’ve been lonely and frustrated and angry and all the crappy stuff everyone feels. But in terms of heartbreak, I’ve been spared. I’ve never toughened up enough to handle what I’d have to handle if I were to stay.”

— Gayle Forman

426. “You make a habit of talking to statues?” “Yes. And pigeons. Now, are you going to ask?”

— Gayle Forman

427. “When the lights come up after the concert, I feel drained, lugubrious, as though my blood has been secreted out of me and replaced with tar.”

— Gayle Forman

428. “As far as I was concerned, I wrote songs; chords and beats and lyrics, verses. and bridges and hooks. But then, as we got bigger, people began to dissect the songs, like a frog from biology class until there was nothing left but guts- tiny parts, so much less than the sum.”

— Gayle Forman

429. “Then she stepped through security. She never came back.”

— Gayle Forman

430. “Toate relatiile sunt dure. La fel ca in muzica, uneori exista armonie, iar alteori – o cacofonie sinistra. Nu-i cazul sa-ti spun asta tocmai tie.”

— Gayle Forman

431. “And I bet she’ll be a stronger person because of what she lost today.”

— Gayle Forman

432. “Her hands were freezing, just like they always were, so I warmed them, just like I always did.”

— Gayle Forman