Quotes from Gayle Forman

As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?

Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.

Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.

It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.

(P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.

Anything that kills hope is a sin

I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

Love is not something you protect. It's something you risk.

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow.

Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.

Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.