Quotes by Gayle Forman

If you stay, Ill do whatever you want. Ill quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, Ill do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe itd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but Id do it. I can lose you like that if I dont lose you today. Ill let you go. If you stay.

Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal

Im not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. Im not sure that I want to wake up.

Please Mia, he implores. Dont make me write a song.

There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? Youve ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I cant say any of that.

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.

You dumb-ass, I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. You dont share me. You own me.

Stains are even worse when youre the only one who can see them.

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.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

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.

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 doesnt even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think youll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.

Whoever said that the past isnt dead had it backward. Its the future thats already dead, already played out.

And now I am here, as alone as Ive ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how its suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.

So, this is how its become? This is how Ive become? A walking contradiction? Im surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, its like I dont know what to do with it, I dont know how to be a normal person anymore.

Fake it till you make it.

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, Ill get through today.

And thats when I understand that I have been stained. Whether Im still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who hes in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

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

Its my turn to see you through, she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome.