Quotes by Gayle Forman

My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and Im mad at myself.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.

It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere youll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

Its like youre averse to adventure.

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... she trails off.

It was like finding out the world was made of gossamer and could be so easily ripped apart. To be solely at the mercy of fate.

I dont want to lose you because of the f**ked-up way I found you.

Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because hed been waiting for her. And there she was.

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 yourself.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like its the easiest thing.

Firefly, it is an act of bravery to feel your feelings. Oh, Meg wouldve loved that. Its an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die.

She looks at me, square in the eye. Taking aim. And then she pulls the trigger. “Because I hated you.”The wind, the noise, it all just goes quiet for a second, and I’m left with a dull ringing in my ear, like after a show, like after a heart monitor goes to flatline.“Hated me? W

Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Aint such a line between faking and being.

Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths.

I realize then that its not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

Ill keep you here. He taps his temple. Where you cant get lost.

If you could know going in that twenty-five years of love would break you in the end, would you risk it? Because isn’t it inevitable? When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you’ll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

And just in general, Im better. Better than Ive been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didnt break my hear. But Im beginning to wonder if in some roundabout way, she fixed it.

But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away.He was right, after all; it didnt leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least Id have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when youre the only one who can see them.