Quotes from Gayle Forman

In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite.

The rain falls endlessly, and even on the hottest of summer days, blooming white cumulus clouds float above, their shadows reminding you that summer's heat is fleeting, and the rain's never far off

An image of Mia flashes before my eyes. Seventeen years old, those dark eyes full of love, intensity, fear, music, sex, magic, grief.

It had to do with the doubts. The same niggling doubts I always had about not belonging. I didn't feel like I belonged with my family, and now I didn't feel like I belonged with Adam, except unlike my family, who was stuck with me, Adam had chosen me, and this I didn't understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn't make sense.

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

This isn't about her. It was catalyzed by her, and she's woven up in it, but this is ultimately about him and his life and what he needs to do to make himself whole. He's stopped drifting, he's stopped being tossed around by the wind.

In a funny way, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine. Because even though he had blue hair and tattoos and wore leather jackets and worked in a record store, he wanted to marry Mom back at a time when the rest of their friends were still having drunken one-night stands. "Girlfriend is such a stupid word," he said. "I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her "wife"'.

She felt almost tearfully grateful to be off the hook, and residually angry because she was always on the hook.

But in my family, playing music was still more important than the type of music you played, so when after a few months it became clear that my love for the cello was no passing crush, my parents rented me one so I could practice at home. Rusty scales and triads

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival.

I look at Ben now. And again I wonder how it is that we can feel so many of the same things and be so utterly different.

Next time I get sick, you can tell that to me. You can be my girl in the mountains." "Okay", I say."I'll be your mountain girl and take care of you.

The sight of her bare feet. What this is doing to Willem's blood pressure. She might as well have taken off all her clothes.)

Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.

Do you honestly think that where you're buried has any bearing on where your spirit lives?

We'll just be the kinds of girls who have boyfriends in college.

There." I'm not exactly sure where there is, but by the way he says it, I know it's not a place you'd want to be.

Samo mislim da su sprovodi vrlo sli?ni smrti. Možeš imati želje i planove, ali na kraju ipak nemaš kontrolu ni nad ?im.

Bruised but not broken," Dr Robinet told me before I left. I though the was talking about my spirit, but he'd been referring to my ribs.

down different roads. But each of you gets to decide

Quiero tocar cada parte de él. Es como si su cuerpo fuese un sol gigante, emitiendo su propia fuerza de gravedad.

Complicated and confused in a wholly fucked-up way is a good way to describe it. But maybe that's just how love is.

Because you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not.

We'll make it a blowout like in the olden days." "When dinosaurs roamed the earth?" Teddy asked. "Exactly," Dad said. "When dinosaurs roamed the earth and your mom and I were young.