759 Quotes by Gayle Forman

Because the hard part of falling down is not the falling down, or the getting back up. It’s seeing what happens to the people you fall on. You get bruised; they get flattened.

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they’d tell.

Every fiction has its base in fact,” he tells her.

And secrets crave fissures, until the fissures become trenches, and the trenches become channels, and the channels become crevasses, and suddenly you are alone, on a block of ice, separated from everyone you care about.

It was so new that day: the liberation of being honest, of being brave, maybe a little stupid.

One day she told me that they’d decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.

Days like these go on for years. It’s the ones you want to last that slip away – one, two, three – in seconds.

When the sun shines, you let it shine on you.

I’ve never toughened up enough to handle what I’d have to handle if I were to stay.