Quotes from Gayle Forman

He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be

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

You win some, you lose some. And sometimes you win and lose at the same time. Life's a bloody cockup.

Mia," Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. "You're starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?

It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.

Travelling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it.

It's an act of bravery to feel your feelings.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.

She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.

Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.

La gente sólo cree lo que quiere creer.

no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?

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

In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right.

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?

It seems abstract when you're dealing with people online, but they are still people, and some of them are not nice people, not the kind you ever want to be in a room with." Sometimes you don't even need to be in the same room for the damage to be done.

Little pinpricks fire-cracker up and down my body. Just calm down , I tell myself. You just make her nervous showing up all out of the blue like that. Still, I'm flattered that I matter-- even if it's just enough to scare her.

She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me.

This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am." The look he gives me is withering. "Do you?

And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons. It never occurred to me that by pretending to be Lulu, I might slip into that other column, even for just a day.

But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.

Yeah, but some things you can't control, no matter how hard you try.

Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his lips are soft and his kiss is gentle, it feels like a knife jamming into the electrical socket. It feels like the moment when I go live