Quotes from Gayle Forman

I just want out. Out of my existence. I find myself wishing that a lot lately. Not to be dead. Or kill myself. Or any of that kind of stupid shit. It's more I can't help think what if I hadn't been born in the first place...

When I open the door in front of the bus station, he says, "Take care, Cody," in a quiet voice. ...As much as I want to put miles between me and Ben McCallister, now that I'm doing just that, I understand what a relief it's been to share this weight with someone. "Yeah. You too," I tell him. "Have a good life." It's not what I meant to say. It sounds too flippant. But maybe it's the most you can hope for someone.

El amor no es algo que proteges. Es algo por lo que arriesgas.

They say that things happen for a reason, but I don't know that I buy that. I don't know that I'll ever see a reason for what happened to Kat, Denny, and Teddy that day.

I understand then that giving me the computer is not really a gift. But maybe my taking it is.

This was just how adult relationships were, how love felt once you had a few battle scars.

Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.

Adam strummed an unfamiliar melody. I asked him what he was playing. "I'm calling it 'My-Girlfriend's-Going-to-Julliard-Leaving-My-Punk-Heart-in-Shreds Blues.

TIME HAS A WEIGHT TO IT AND RIGHT NOW I FEEL IT HEAVY ON ME.

I've never seen anyone cry like this. Quiet but gushing, a faucet behind his eyes mysteriously turned on.

11:47, positively crack-of-dawn for me.

We drank Pepsi out of these old-fashioned bottles that Dad had found at some ancient country store, and I swear they tasted better than the regular kind.

Shouldn't I stay? Soldier through it? Maybe if I'd had some practice, maybe if I'd had more devastation in my life, I would be more prepared to go on. It's not that my life has been perfect. I've had disappointments and I've been lonely and frustrated and angry and all the crappy stuff everyone feels.

Are you famous in India?" Allyson asks. "I am Brad Pitt in India" Willem says.

There are pictures of Kim and Mia from high school and one of the two of them posing on top of the Empire State Building—a jolting reminder that their relationship wasn't truncated, they have a history of which I know nothing.

We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anithing can happen in just one day

His face, illuminated by the lights, is blank, like someone vacuumed away all his personality, leaving only a mask

Bagaiamana dad mengatasi demam panggung?" "Kau tidak mengatasinya. Kau hanya perlu melaluinya. Kau bertahan.

Una verdad y su opuesto son los dos lados de una misma moneda.

Where you need to be?" he asked me. And I had the strangest thought: Right here is where I need to be.

I lost them, too. Except even back then, it had been different, like there'd been a barrier. That's the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

Knowing that something bad is going to happen, whether you want it to or not, to the point that you just want it to happen so you can stop dreading it.

Our skins reach outward, like magnets, long deprived of their opposite charge.

Su sonrisa es como chocolate fundido. Es como un solo de guitarra de puta madre. Es todo lo bueno que hay en este mundo.