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