Gayle Forman Quotes

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.

Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

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.

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.

You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me.

Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. "I'll keep you up here." He taps his temple. "Where you can't get lost.

It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome.

Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.

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.

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.

So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? 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.

Fake it 'till you make it.

But still, 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.

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.