759 Quotes by Gayle Forman

Close your eyes, think of the year ahead. This is your chance. This can be the day it all changes.

What about your parents? You can't let them down? Even if it means letting yourself down? Which I doubt they'd want for you. I understand about wanting to please your parents, to make them proud. It's a noble impulse, and I commend you for it. But at the end of the day, it's your education. You have to own it. And you should enjoy it.

But the memories... one pops up, I push it away and then another appears.

I don't believe in wishes coming true. But if I do, what would I wish for? Normally I have such willpower. Like a dieter resisting a cookie, I don't even let myself go there. But for the briefest second, I do.

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". Willem

...you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not.

She wears the braid every day and always, by lunchtime, the curls and ringlets of her thick mane have managed to escape in rebellious little tendrils. But she refuses to surrender to that hair of hers, and every morning, it goes back into the braid.

But I’d do it again. I know that now. I’d make thatpromise a thousand times over and lose her a thousandtimes over to have heard her play last night or to see herin the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just toknow that she’s somewhere out there. Alive.

Everyone loves New York City for all these different reasons. The culture. The mix of people. The pace. The food. But for me, it's like one epic Easter egg hunt. You're always finding these little surprises around every corner.