759 Quotes by Gayle Forman

I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter.

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

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

You never knew, did you? Maybe not knowing didn’t have to be so terrifying. Maybe it could just be life. “When.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.

Mom and I made three pies with wild blackberries that Teddy and I had picked.

I never really bought in Kim’s notion that they were somehow bound together through me- until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor.

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