Quotes by Gayle Forman

Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

But now here I am: No money. No place to stay. It should be my worst nightmare. But I dont care. Its funny the things you think youre scared of until theyre upon you, and then youre not.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.

She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me.

You never know what will last.He said that earlier, about accidents, about never knowing which one is just a kink in the road and which one is a fork, about never knowing your life is changing until its already happened.I think sometimes you do know, I say, my voice filling with emotion.

...that whole day, being with Willem, being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life Ive been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then someone came along and showed me there was a door in the room. One that Id never even seen before. Then he opened it for me. Held my hand as I walked through it. And for one perfect day, I was on the other side. I was somewhere else. Someone else. And then he was gone, and I was thrown back into my little room. And now, no matter what I do, I cant seem to find that door.

I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever Im going next, these are coming with me.

Dont be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. Youll find out one day.

Concert doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

After that, I became kind of fascinated by her and by what I guessed was her ability to hear music in the silence. Back then, Id wanted to be able to do that, too. So I took to watching her play, and though I told myself the reason for my attention was because she was as dedicated a musician as I was and that she was cute, the truth was that I also wanted to understand what she heard in the silence.

I do have a point to all this,” she continues. “There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we’re all your family.” She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. “You still have a family,” she whispers.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, thats the beauty of it, too.

There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But were all your family. She stops now. Leans over me so that wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead.You still have a family, she whispers.

Dying is easy. Living is hard

I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. Its the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that Ive lost myself to - which is that Ill be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, Ill watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesnt make any sense.

I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It’s the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I’ve lost myself to - which is that I’ll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest.

One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one

Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you cant trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me.

Every fiction has its base in fact.

We were all forged in the crucible.