Quotes from Gayle Forman

Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad's snare drum from the house, Henry's guitar from his car, Adam's spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad's songs, Adam's songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

I don't know how to be a friend. I don't know how to be anything.

Adam is mumbling something now. In a low voice. Over and over he is saying: please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Finally, he stops and looks at my face. "Please, Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.

A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want...But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too...I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it. When you travel, you put yourself out there. It's not always great. Sometimes it's terrible. But other times ... [...] It's not so bad.

A veces hay que elegir en la vida, y a veces la vida te elige a ti.

And suddenly I just need to hold his hand more than I've ever needed anything in this world.

There's something comforting in that. To go down as a family. No one left behind.

Ever hear the one about that dog that spent its life chasing cars and finally caught one—and had no idea what to do with it? I'm that dog.

Adam had chosen me, and this I didn't understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn't make sense.

Closure. I loathe that word.

Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.

I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

Tranquila. Si quieres irte, no pasa nada. Todo el mundo quiere que te quedes. Y yo, más de lo que he deseado ninguna otra cosa en mi vida. Pero ése es mi deseo, y comprendo que quizá tú tengas tus motivos para querer otra cosa. Entenderé que decidas irte. No pasa nada si tienes que dejarnos y decides dejar de luchar. No te preocupes por nosotros.

Todas las relaciones son difíciles. Igual que en la música, a veces tienes armonía y a veces cacofonía.

Megan Luisa Garcia I WAS HERE

In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed

Women can handle the worst kind of pain.

If music be the food of love, play on

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.

She'll always carry that scar." "She will, only if you do.

A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd gone and chosen the cello.