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35 Painfully Beautiful Gayle Forman Quotes That'll Both Hurt And Heal You

I needed someone to hate and you're the one I love the most so it fell to you.  
Kirsten Corley
August 12, 2016
“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
“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Dying, Life Quotes, Gayle Forman, Gayle Forman Quotes
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“No one is who they pretend to be.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Tagged: Real Life, Fake People, Life Quotes, Real Talk
“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 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
“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