“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: Leaving, Loss, Relationships Ending, Gone, Mourning
“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…”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: Opportunity, life choices, Happiness, Just One Year
“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.comTagged: Apology, Sorry, Relationships Ending, Where She Went
“Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: 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, amazon.comTagged: Where She Went, Love, True Love, Relationships, first kiss