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

“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.”

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

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“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.”

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“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.”

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“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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“The people we pretend to be, they're already in us. That's why we pretend to be them in the first place.”

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“No one is who they pretend to be.”

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“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.”

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“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

“Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.”

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“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.”

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“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…”

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“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

“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 yourse…”

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“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”

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“I've come to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.”

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“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, 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 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, amazon.com

“You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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, 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 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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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.”

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“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”

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“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, amazon.com