Quotes from Gayle Forman

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.

Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.

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

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind.

If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

Mia's smile is melting chocolate. It's a kick-ass guitar solo. It's everything good in this world.

I don't want to lose you because of the f**ked-up way I found you.

It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

I was reminded just why God wants us to forgive. Not simply because it's the key to a better world, but because of what it does for ourselves. Forgiveness is God's gift to us. Christ forgave us. He forgave our sins. That was his gift. But by allowing us to forgive each other, he opened us up to that divine love. The article had it right. Forgiveness: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.

I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it's my voice this time and it's asking a question: How does she know?

I can't lose you again. It really will kill me this time.

The people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one.Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.

I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.

She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?

It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it". Willem

There is a world of difference, Lulu, between falling in love and being in love.

Fake it till you make it actually worked.

She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.