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Gayle Forman Quotes

Total quotes: 56
“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it’s the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for…years now; it’s frozen shut.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Letting Go
“There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You’ve ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can’t say any of that.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Pain, hurt
“Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through.”
— Adam, Where She Went
Tagged: First Lines, first lines of books, Getting Through, strength, Resilience
“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: If I Stay, Relationships, Love, Loss, Gayle Forman Quotes
“You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Tagged: Relationships, Fall in love, Gayle Forman Quotes
“It’s quiet now. So quiet that you can almost hear other people’s dreams.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Silence, Quiet Time, Hush, peace is for dreams
“Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing. 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, Just One Day
Tagged: Traveling, Adventure, Passion, Desire, Want
“I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I’ll get through today.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Motivational, Encouragement
“Here's one thing that makes it hard to finish a novel: Going down the Twitter rabbit hole.”
— Gayle Forman
Tagged: Writing, Writing A Book, writing a novel, Distractions, avoiding distractions
“Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Tagged: Gayle Forman, Gayle Forman Quotes, Mistakes, Regrets
“Even if you find him. Even if he didn't leave you on purpose, he can't possibly live up to the person you've built him into.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Year
Tagged: Build Up, Relationships, soulmates
“Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Heartbreak, Love, Sadness
“I run my finger along her neck, her jawline, and then cup her chin in my hand. And stop. We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together.”
— Adam, Where She Went
Tagged: Intimacy, Love, Magnetism
“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Where She Went, Gayle Forman Quotes, Gayle Forman, Love, Hate And Love
“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, goodbye, Relationships Ending
“But the you who are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: If I Stay, Relationships, Love, Forever, Gayle Forman Quotes
“Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Year
Tagged: Just One Year, Relationships, Looking For Love, lost
“I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security.

She never came back.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: goodbye, Endings, Relationships Ending, Loss, Heartbreak
“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: breakup, Heartbreak, Relationship, Loss, Losing Love, hurt
“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Relationships Ending, Leaving, Going, Heartbreak
“I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Apology, Sorry, Relationships Ending, Where She Went
“I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Where She Went, normal, Life, Alone, Isolated
“The people we pretend to be, they're already in us. That's why we pretend to be them in the first place.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Tagged: Fake People, Pretend, Faking it
“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Loss, Breakups, Loss And Love
“There is a world of difference between falling in love and being in love.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, difference
“And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: If I Stay, Gayle Forman, Gayle Forman Quotes
“A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Where She Went, Relationships, Tough Days, Tough Life
“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Tagged: Leaving, Loss, Relationships Ending, Gone, Mourning, Death Quotes
“I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close. Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Where She Went, Relationships, Kissing, Gayle Forman
“I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Hate You, Hate And Love, Relationships, Understand, Acceptance
“He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Tagged: Scars, Pain, hurt, Wish, Stains
“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, If I Stay
Tagged: Death Quotes, Life, Life Quotes, Control
“Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Year
Tagged: Brave, Risk, Relationships, Fear, chances
“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, Moving Forward, Breakups
“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Fighting, Life, Dying, Living, Death
“Our skins reach outward, like magnets, long deprived of their opposite charge”
— Adam, Where She Went
Tagged: Intimacy, Love, Magnetism
“Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Dating, Heartbreak, Relationships
“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Love, Immortal
“I've come to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Life Quotes, Tragedy, believing, Where She Went
“It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Year
Tagged: Gayle Forman Quotes, Gayle Forman, One Year, Time, Relationships
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