Gayle Forman Quotes - Page 2

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.

But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Every fiction has its base in fact.

My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.

I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

Willem laughs again. The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.

We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.

Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind.

It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So 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.

Samo mislim da su sprovodi vrlo slični smrti. Možeš imati želje i planove, ali na kraju ipak nemaš kontrolu ni nad čim.

She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.

Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obscuration. Red flowers dot the land in the breeze's chase while the land colored up in red after the kiss.

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.

You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.

TIME HAS A WEIGHT TO IT AND RIGHT NOW I FEEL IT HEAVY ON ME.

I WANT TO CUT THROUGH THE SPACE THAT SEPERATES US.

Time has a weight to it, and right now I can feel it heavy over me.