759 Quotes by Gayle Forman

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn’t the same as being in love... This is being in love. It’s something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to.

If you can’t trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

Twenty-six letters and some punctuation marks and you have infinite words in infinite worlds. How is that not a miracle?

I wasn’t in danger today,” I tell him in a choked voice. “I escaped danger today.” And I did... I feel like the whole day has been an electrical shock, paddles straight to my heart, bringing me out of a lifelong torpor I hadn’t even known I was in. “I escaped,” I repeat.

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you’ve built yourself a different one.

Part of me knows one more day won’t do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.

And the memories of my life as it was, and the flashes of it as it might be, are coming so fast and furious. I feel like I can no longer keep up with them but they keep coming and everything is colliding, until I cannot take it anymore. Until I cannot be like this one second longer. There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body. For the first time, I can sense how fully agonizing staying will be.

It’s an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die.

Adam strummed an unfamiliar melody. I asked him what he was playing. “I’m calling it ‘My-Girlfriend’s-Going-to-Julliard-Leaving-My-Punk-Heart-in-Shreds Blues.