759 Quotes by Gayle Forman

Life can be hard and beautiful and messy, but hopefully, it will be long. If it is, you will see that it’s unpredictable, and that the dark periods comes, but they abate – sometimes with a lot of support – and the tunnel widens, allowing the sun back in. If you’re in the dark, it might feel like you will always be there. Fumbling. Alone. But you won’t – and you’re not.

Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can’t trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me.

He sort of breathes music.

A careful man tries to dodge the bullets, while a happy man takes a walk.

Then he gave a sad little smile. “Yo Mama better watch his back,” he said.

You’re just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they’re already in us. That’s why we pretend them in the first place.

It’s ok if you want to stop fighting.

The day is ending; it’s not coming back.

I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don’t seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.