759 Quotes by Gayle Forman

I lost them, too. Except even back then, it had been different, like there’d been a barrier. That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

This day, so seared in my memory, is just another day to everyone else.

No one is who they pretend to be.

Something tickles inside me, an echo from another time when it wasn’t all frozen in there.

I don’t know exactly what’s happened to me, and for the first time today, I don’t really care. I shouldn’t have to care. I shouldn’t have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

Backstage, Willem is thinking about accidents again. And things that seemingly don’t make sense, except they do. Like right out there in the fifth row. All of them, together. That makes sense.

But if that’s what happens to normal, what hope is there for the rest of us?” I ask him.

It had given me a bad feeling, though I wasn’t sure if it was because I was scared I wasn’t going to find him, or scared of just what I might find.

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