Quotes from Gayle Forman

Me, too," I said. And then we stopped talking for a while as Adam strummed an unfamiliar melody. I asked him what he was playing. "I'm calling it 'The Girlfriend's-Going-to-Juilliard-Leaving-My-Punk-Heart-in-Shreds Blues,' " he said, singing the title in an exaggeratedly twangy voice. Then he smiled that goofy shy smile that I felt like came from the truest part of him. "I'm kidding." "Good," I said.

For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you." Every hair on my body stands on end,

She mock shudders the way you do when you talk about someone's misfortunes that have nothing to do with you, that don't touch you, and never will. I've never hit a woman in my life, but for one minute I want to punch her in the face, give her a taste of the pain she's so casually describing.

Wait, you want me to ride the bike?" He nods. "And you'll what? Run alongside me?" "No. I'll ride you." His eyebrows shoot up, and I feel myself blush. "On the bike," he clarifies

And her voice, it's exactly the same. I don't know why I'd expect it to be different except that everything's different now.

Él tenía razón, después de todo; no dejó una cicatriz, aunque parte de mí desearía que lo hubiese hecho. Por lo menos tendría alguna evidencia, alguna justificación de esta permanencia. Las manchas son aún peores cuando eres el único que puede verlas.

Sólo fue un día y sólo ha pasado un año. Pero tal vez un día es suficiente. Tal vez una hora es suficiente. Tal vez el tiempo no tenga nada que ver con ello.

My dad used to say that when I was born I looked so totally familiar

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which to take.

Es curioso las cosas que piensas que les tienes miedo hasta que están sobre ti, y luego ya no lo tienes.

A wicked sense of humor, this one.

Adam has about a foot and fifty pounds on Kim, but after stumbling for a second, she adjusts to the added burden. She bears it.

Sin importar qué, debes saber.

Something tickles inside me, an echo from another time when it wasn't all frozen in there.

this was exactly what he did: became a turtle, all hard shell. It was the perfect protection, the perfect weapon. She lost every time. She understood that

it was forty degrees outside.

Are all movies books first?" "Just the best ones.

Maybe accident isn't the right word at all. Maybe miracle is. Or maybe it's not a miracle, Maybe this is just life. When you open youself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.

My chips are all cashed out. There's nothing to lose. Or maybe I've already lost it and found it, and whatever else there might be to lose...

I think we were both aware that we were falling in love. I thought that getting to this part was the challenge. In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed.

Mom and I made three pies with wild blackberries that Teddy and I had picked.

En solo un día, había llegado a amar esa sonrisa. Y ahora la quiero eliminar.

People called Mom that a lot, probably because she had a hard time holding her tongue and could be brutally blunt when she disagreed with you. She'd explode like a thunderstorm, and then be fine again. Anyhow, she didn't care that people called her a bitch. "It's just another word for feminist," she told me with pride.