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Gayle Forman Quotes

Total quotes: 40
“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
“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
“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
“I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Happiness, Life Quotes, Gayle Forman Quotes, Gayle Forman
“The older I get the more I realize that the best course of action in nearly any situation is to increase generosity. The tricky part is deciding how and to whom that generosity should be applied. But it always comes back to being more generous.”
— Gayle Forman
Tagged: Generosity, being generous, generous, Life, kindness
“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: If I Stay, Gayle Forman, life choices, Gayle Forman Quotes
“Everyone thinks it was because of the snow.”
— Mia, If I Stay
Tagged: First Lines, first lines of books
“He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One...: Includes Just One Day, Just One Year, and Just One Night
Tagged: Imagination, Imagination Vs. Reality, H4D-42
“And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Tagged: Just One Day, Relationships, Love Again, Life, Longing For Love
“No one is who they pretend to be.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Tagged: Real Life, Fake People, Life Quotes, Real Talk
“Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Tagged: Just One Day, Relationships Ending, Love Starting, Gayle Forman Quotes
“But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Where She Went, Gayle Forman Quotes, Gayle Forman, Without You
“My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Where She Went, Love, True Love, Relationships, first kiss
“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Gayle Forman Quotes, Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Year
Tagged: Opportunity, life choices, Happiness, Just One Year
“Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a band on the rise - or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this -I was pretty sure it would've been.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Relationship Goals, Relationships, Forever
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