Quotes from Gayle Forman

I'm so good at faking I don't even know when I'm doing it

But then one time, you track down an email address and you're near a computer with Internet access so you don't have that nice cushion and you type what you're feeling and press send before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it. And then you wait, and wait, and wait, and nothing comes back, so all those things you thought were so important to say, really, they weren't. They weren't worth saying at all.

Every fiction has its base in fact,

When I was with him, I felt like I already knew him

It feels kind of nice to be lost, together

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

Maybe if I'd had some practice, maybe if I'd had more devastation in my life, I would be more prepared to go on.

Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I don't know when exactly I started giving myself this daily pep talk—or why... But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Every fiction has its base in fact," he tells her.

Poetry isn't math was our battle cry

The best day of my life was one I never even saw coming

Lo peor que podría hacer es atropellarla con una bicicleta.

En un cálculo de los sentimientos, nunca realmente sabes como la ausencia de una persona te afecta más que otra

I learned that childhood rhyme or the dictum that demanded you scratch your head every time you heard a siren, lest the next siren be for you. But I do know when I started doing it, and now it's become second nature. Still, in a place like Manhattan, where the sirens are always blaring, it can become exhausting to keep up.

If you could know going in that twenty-five years of love would break you in the end, would you risk it? Because isn't it inevitable? When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

And eventually your loss normalizes—it integrates into part of your everyday life and you find yourself three or five years later doing okay, changed but . . . but still able to hear your friends' voices, still telling stories about them, still thinking of them every day.

She looks at me, square in the eye. Taking aim. And then she pulls the trigger. "Because I hated you.

I'd wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that

Suenan como un centenar de bombas de tiempo esperando por explotar.

I wake up this morning to a thin blanket of white covering our front lawn. It isn't even an inch, but in this part of Oregon a slight dusting brings everything to a standstill as the one snowplow in the county

Pienso en todas las voces que arman barullo en mi cabeza, voces que no son más que versiones mayores, más jóvenes o simplemente mejores de mí mismo, estoy seguro. A veces, cuando las cosas iban realmente mal, he tratado de llamarla a ella, de conseguir que me respondiera, pero nunca lo he conseguido. Sólo logro captarme a mí mismo. Si quiero oír su voz, tengo que recurrir a los recuerdos. Al menos eso no me falta.

Porque puedo tener sólo dieciocho años, pero ya parece bastante obvio que el mundo se divide en dos grupos: los que actúan y los que observan. La gente a la que le suceden las cosas y el resto de nosotros, que sólo medio perseveran con las cosas. Las Lulu y las Allyson.

This place is not about fixing you. It's about warehousing you while your clueless parents are bilked out of thousands of dollars.

I've come to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.