Quotes from Gayle Forman

I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it's my voice this time and it's asking a question: How does she know?

I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.

Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely

It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it". Willem

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. "I'll keep you up here." He taps his temple. "Where you can't get lost.

You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

Love can make you immortal

After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.

Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.

I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.

Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth