“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com