Quotes from Gayle Forman

Algunos amores son imperecederos. Sobre todo si ocurren en París.

Some things you can't control, no matter how hard you try.

Her voice jolts me back to reality. Back to the reality of the past three years. There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

Mom offered to go over and smooth things out, but I think that Dad and I both realized that given her temper, her diplomatic mission might end up with a restraining order against our family.

You know that saying about a frog in a pot? How you can put a frog in boiling water and it'll jump straight out, but if you put a frog in tepid water and slowly increase the heat, it'll adjust and adjust until it dies?

dice eso antes, sobre los accidentes, sobre no saber nunca cuando uno es un giro en la carretera y cuando se trata de un tenedor, sin saber que tu vida está cambiando, hasta que ya sucedió.

I don't know exactly what's happened to me, and for the first time today, I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

I've always said it's better to be hated than it is to be ignored. Maybe on the same lines, it's better to feel this than to feel nothing.

Don't worry, I plan on living a long time." "Why are you making a bucket list, then?" "Because if you wait until you're really dying, it's too late.

And the memories of my life as it was, and the flashes of it as it might be, are coming so fast and furious. I feel like I can no longer keep up with them but they keep coming and everything is colliding, until I cannot take it anymore. Until I cannot be like this one second longer. There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body. For the first time, I can sense how fully agonizing staying will be.

That's just the half of it. You're a classical cellist whose parents are old punk rockers. You're a total freak. But you're my freak.

I never really bought in Kim's notion that they were somehow bound together through me- until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor.

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow. I love that you're fragile and tough, quiet and kick-ass. Hell, you're one of the punkest girls I know, no matter who you listen to or what you wear.

sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

I drove her to the airport. She kissed me goodbye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she skipped through security. She never came back.

I needed to be somewhere where people wouldn't be sad, where the thoughts concerned life, not death.

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love... This is being in love. It's something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to.

Almost don't matter. You got to deal with the situation at hand.

Pero si voy a sobrevivir, no puedo nunca, jamás volver a repasar este día.

Entonces, dice—. ¿Haces eso a menudo? ¿Seguir adelante? —Quizás. Pero sólo porque viajo mucho. Golpetea con ritmo en el volante, audible sólo para ella. —O quizás viajas mucho porque te permite seguir adelante.

And I realize that before there's a next, there's a now that needs attending to.

He talks about despair, how it drives in silence.

Allyson sees Willem's face, his panic, and she knows he is misreading her. But she is helpless to explain right now. Words have left her. She is emotion only.

I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.