Quotes from Gayle Forman

Because the hard part of falling down is not the falling down, or the getting back up. It's seeing what happens to the people you fall on. You get bruised; they get flattened.

In destroying ourselves, we also learn to create ourselves.

Una parte de mí sabe que un día más no va a hacer nada más que aplazar el corazón roto. Pero otra parte de mí piensa diferente. Hemos nacido en un día. Morimos en un día. Podemos cambiar en un día. Y podemos enamorarnos en un día. Todo puede pasar en un solo día.

Why wasn't I nicer to Alice? When she has been nothing but sweet to me? When I actually like her? I know I should say something to her, but before I can find the words, she's tooting her horn and disappearing down the street. I wave until she turns the corner. And as I watch another person drive out of here to some better place, I understand exactly why I wasn't nicer.

D'après mon amie Kim, ai-je dit, c'est signe de profondeur d'âme. Pour elle, le monde est divisé entre les personnes qui envisagent leurs obsèques et les autres. Les artistes et les gens brillants appartiennent à la première catégorie.

I'm not sure if the question's rhetorical or if she thinks I have a clue to her metaphysical mystery. And I'm in no state to answer either way because I'm crying. I don't realize it till I taste the sale against my lips. I can't remember the last time I've cried but, once I accept the mortification of sniveling like a baby, the floodgates open and I'm sobbing now, in front of Mia. In front of the whole damn world.

I bet she'll be a stronger person because of what she's lost today. I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

Sin dinero. Sin lugar para quedarse. Debe ser mi peor pesadilla. Pero no me importa. Es gracioso pensar en las cosas que crees temer, hasta que te suceden y luego ya no es así.

quiero estar por encima de esto. Quiero que todos esos recuerdos desaparezcan o sean suplantados por algo más, que dejen de perseguirme.

A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.

If I turn into one of those girls, I'll hand you the gun.

Ponekad ti donosiš odluke u životu, a ponekad se odluke donesu same.

Kaže da se svijet dijeli na ljude koji zamišljaju svoj sprovod i one koji ga ne zamišljaju, te da pametni i umjetni?ki nastrojeni ljudi spadaju u prvu kategoriju.

She was in a free fall now. And it wasn't killing her. In fact, she was beginning to wonder if she might've had it backwards. All that fixating on the fall...maybe she should've been paying more attention to the free.

Her eyes were open, then on me again like they never left.

I continue reading, remembering why I used to love books. Because they show us, in so many words, and so many worlds, that we are not alone.

But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.

La persona que eres esta noche es la misma de la que estaba enamorado ayer, la misma de la que estaré enamorado mañana.

You guys seemed, still seem, in love, truly, deeply." She sighed. "But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.

A veces la mejor manera de saber lo que se supone que tienes que hacer es haciendo lo que se supone no debes hacer.

Our seats were in the balcony. Nosebleeds. But you don't go to Yo-Yo Ma for the view, and the sound was incredible. That man has a way of making the cello sound like a crying woman one minute, a laughing child the next. . Listening to him, I'm always reminded of why I started playing cell in the first place --- that there is something so human and expressive about it.

And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.

Go Big or Go Home

Pero yo sabía que con Adam sí había motivos para armar revuelo. Lo sabía por el calor que recorrió mi cuerpo aquella noche, cuando me dejó en casa después del concierto y me besó una vez más en la puerta. Lo sabía porque me quedé despierta hasta el amanecer abrazada a la almohada. Porque no puede comer al día siguiente, ni borrarme la sonrisa de la cara.