Quotes by Gayle Forman

“I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.”

“Its okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than Ive ever wanted anything in my life. But thats what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. Its okay if you have to leave us. Its okay if you want to stop fighting.”

“Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. Ive heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If thats what its like, I wouldnt mind. If thats what dying is like, I wouldnt mind that at all.”

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

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

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

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

“We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss Ive had in my life has been wrong.”

“But thats the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people mustve know Id become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.”

“Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind.”

“Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obscuration. Red flowers dot the land in the breezes chase while the land colored up in red after the kiss.”

“Samo mislim da su sprovodi vrlo slični smrti. Možeš imati želje i planove, ali na kraju ipak nemaš kontrolu ni nad čim.”

“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.”