Quotes from Gayle Forman

Then he gave a sad little smile. "Yo Mama better watch his back," he said.

The you you are now is the same you I was in love yesterday, the same you I will be in love tomorrow.

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

But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?

I'm pretty sure that when babies are born in Oregon, they leave the hospital with birth certificates - and teeny-tiny sleeping bags.

Karma's not like a bank. Make a deposit, take a withdrawal. But more and more, I am starting to suspect that all this is payback for something—only not the good kind.

And it was like I knew , and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret.

Our band had perfected the art of punk-rock camping, throwing a bunch of crap into the van with, like, an hour's notice and just driving out into the mountains, where we'd drink beer, burn food, jam on our instruments around the campfire, and sack out under the open sky.

edible. But I still hated the shows and hated myself for hating them. The clubs were smoky, which hurt my eyes and made my clothes stink. The speakers were always turned up so high that the music blared, causing my ears to ring so

It's like my ear attunes to the weird language and I'm sucked fully into the story, the same way I am when I watch a movie, so that I feel it.

And there was so much noise. A symphony of grinding, a chorus of popping, an aria of exploding, and finally, the sad clapping of hard metal cutting into soft trees.

Creo que todo está pasando todo el tiempo, pero si no te pones en el camino, lo pierdes. Cuando viajas, te pones allí. No siempre es genial. A veces es terrible. Pero otras… —Levanta los hombros y hace un gesto hacia París, luego me mira de reojo—, no es tan malo.

without hands, there'd be no music

Le plus curieux, c'est que, peu à peu, un autre sentiment a fait surface. Quelque chose comme de la déception. Et je me suis aperçue que, en dépit de tout, j'aurais vraiment aimé aller voir le grand canyon.

because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly

who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow.

Fue como descubrir que el mundo estaba hecho de telaraña y podía ser fácilmente desgarrado. Estar tan solo a merced del destino.

to fight with the best of them, but with words, with lots and

Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes. How can I come this far and not tell him - he, who would understand it best - that by giving my that flyer, by inviting me to skip Hamlet, he helped me realize that it's not to be that matters, but how to be?

You never knew, did you? Maybe not knowing didn't have to be so terrifying. Maybe it could just be life. "When

OrI just want out. Out of my existence. I find myself wishing that a lot lately. Not be dead. Or kill myself. Or any of that kind of stupid shit. It's more that I can't help thinking that if I'd never been born in the first place, I wouldn't be facing those sixty-seven nights, I wouldn't be right here, right now, having just endured that conversation with her.

A careful man tries to dodge the bullets, while a happy man takes a walk.

Girls have always been the best distractions. Until a girl became the thing I needed distraction from

with a goofy-looking bald baby on the cover. Dad disappeared