759 Quotes by Gayle Forman

Firefly, it is an act of bravery to feel your feelings. Oh, Meg would’ve loved that. It’s an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die.

A wicked sense of humor, this one.

How can you believe someone to be so beautiful and amazing and just about the most magical person you’ve ever known, when it turns out she was in such pain that she had to drink poison to rob her cells of oxygen until her heart had no choice but to stop beating?

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn’t the same as being in love.

The little things that happen. Sometimes they’re insignificant; other times, they change everything.

Do you really think that if you don’t mention my family I’ll forget them?

Or maybe it’s not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.

But in my family, playing music was still more important than the type of music you played, so when after a few months it became clear that my love for the cello was no passing crush, my parents rented me one so I could practice at home. Rusty scales and triads.

Maybe if I’d had some practice, maybe if I’d had more devastation in my life, I would be more prepared to go on.