“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, amazon.comTagged: Build Up, Relationships, soulmates
“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. But I'm also feeling all that I have in my life, which, includes what I have lost, as…”— Gayle Forman, Mia, amazon.comTagged: Emotion, Feeling Emotion, Feeling Everything At Once, Drowning In Emotion, My Favorites
“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.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: Death Quotes, Life, Life Quotes, Control
“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.comTagged: Fighting, Life, Dying, Living, Death
“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.comTagged: Where She Went, normal, Life, Alone, Isolated
“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.comTagged: Love, Immortal
“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, amazon.comTagged: Fake People, Pretend, Faking it
“Everyone thinks it was because of the snow.”— Gayle Forman, Mia, amazon.comTagged: First Lines, first lines of books
“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.comTagged: goodbye, Endings, Relationships Ending, Loss, Heartbreak
“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Loss, Breakups, Loss And Love
“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.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: Hate You, Hate And Love, Relationships, Understand, Acceptance
“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: If I Stay, Gayle Forman, life choices, Gayle Forman Quotes
“Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: Brave, Risk, Relationships, Fear, chances
“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: Dying, Life Quotes, Gayle Forman, Gayle Forman Quotes
“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.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: normalcy, normal, Alone
“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'…”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: 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, amazon.comTagged: 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, amazon.comTagged: If I Stay, Relationships, Love, Loss, Gayle Forman Quotes
“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, amazon.comTagged: breakup, Heartbreak, Relationship, Loss, Losing Love
“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.comTagged: Just One Day, Relationships Ending, Love Starting, Gayle Forman Quotes
“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.comTagged: 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, amazon.comTagged: Gayle Forman, Gayle Forman Quotes, Mistakes, Regrets
“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.comTagged: If I Stay, Relationships, Love, Forever, Gayle Forman Quotes
“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.comTagged: Where She Went, Relationships, Kissing, Gayle Forman
“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.comTagged: Happiness, Life Quotes, Gayle Forman Quotes, Gayle Forman
“Our skins reach outward, like magnets, long deprived of their opposite charge”— Gayle Forman, Adam, amazon.comTagged: Intimacy, Love, Magnetism
“I run my finger along her neck, her jawline, and then cup her chin in my hand. And stop. We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together.”— Gayle Forman, Adam, amazon.comTagged: Intimacy, Love, Magnetism
“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.comTagged: Letting Go, Moving On, goodbye, Relationships Ending
“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.comTagged: 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, amazon.comTagged: Life Quotes, Tragedy, believing, Where She Went