Quotes from Gayle Forman

Amazing things happen when you stop hiding behind that hulking beast.

Ponte algo con lo que te sientas a gusto. Así seguro que no fallas.

Ella me dio un beso de despedida. Ella me dijo que me amaba más que a su propia vida. Luego pasó a través de seguridad. Ella nunca volvió.

No te asustes. Las mujeres pueden soportar los mayores dolores. Ya lo descubrirás tú también. ¡Joder, joder!

Your presence can be soothing so long as what you say is soothing

It's quiet now. So quiet that you can almost hear other people's dreams So quiet that you can almost hear me tell Gramps, Thank you.

I've been feeling something else. Like I'm about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.

One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one

You're a total freak. But you're my freak.

Your mother is probably right," Dad said. "Social services frowns on drunk ten-year-ols. Besides, when I dropped my drumsticks and puked onstage, it was punk. If you drop your bow and smell like a brewery, it will look gauche. You classical-music people are so snobby that way.

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.

As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about feeling like a place acknowledged you, winked at you, accepted you. It's strange because, of all the people in all the cities, I'd have thought that to Parisians I'd be invisible, but apparently I'm not. Apparently in Paris, not only can I skate, but I practically qualify for the Olympics!

You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)

Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.

I'm not sure it's possible to simultaneously love something and keep it safe. Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.

How does it feel that the only worthy thing you ever ceeated came from the worst kind of loss.

To dream is the ultimate dare, is it not?

We went to church sometimes, so it's not like Mom had anything against religion, but Kerry totally did and Mom was ferociously protective of the people she loved, so much that she took insults up them personally.

How would the tragedy changes us? How would WE change us ?

A veces, sólo se puede sentir algo por su ausencia. Por el espacio vacío que deja atrás.

So let's hear another one of your irrational fears." Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices.

It's something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to." "You're comparing love to a…stain?" He leans so far back in his seat that the front legs of his chair scrape off the floor. He looks very satisfied, with the crepe or with himself, I'm not sure. "Exactly.

Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.

C'mon, Mee,' Henry said. 'You're among family.' 'Totally,' Kim said.