759 Quotes by Gayle Forman

Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I’d bottle and wear as perfume if I could.

When a broken bone heals, it’s stronger than it was before the break. Same holds true for broken hearts.

Allyson sees Willem’s face, his panic, and she knows he is misreading her. But she is helpless to explain right now. Words have left her. She is emotion only.

Why had she asked a mirror – or anyone for that matter – to tell her who she was?

Obey the muse, Liz said. She’s a fickle mistress.

It’s just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That’s how life works.

Why not? Tell me. You owe me this!” 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 a after a show, like a after a heart monitor goes to flatline. “Hated me? Why?” “Because you made me stay.

The rain keeps up throughout the next day. “Lovely English summer we’re having,” everyone jokes.

Two oceans between us. And still not enough.