Quotes from Gayle Forman

Mom shot me a sympathetic grimace. "I don't know. But I do know that if you want to stay and be with him, I'd support that, though maybe I'm only saying that because I don't think you'd be able to turn down Juilliard. But I'd understand if you chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And either way you lose. What can I tell you? Love's a bitch.

Ella cree en los santos. Yo creo en los accidentes. Pienso que básicamente creemos en la misma cosa.

And it took me by surprise how much I wanted to be kissed by him, to realize that I'd thought about it so often that I'd memorized the exact shape of his lips, that I'd imagined running my finger down the cleft of his chin.

But it was such a calming silence; it made me relax and feel closer to him than any heart-to-heart would have.

Pieces of my father's brain are on the asphalt.

It's okay," he tells me. "If you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life." His voice cracks with emotion. He stops, clears his throat, takes a breath, and continues." But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting".

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

As he played on, the energy magnified; the tuning fork going crazy now, firing off vibrations all over, until my entire body was humming, until I was left breathless. And when I felt like I could not take it one more minute, the swirl of sensations hit a dizzying crescendo, sending every nerve ending in my body on high alert.

I'm kind of getting the concept of closure. It's no big dramatic before-after. It's more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.

No estoy segura de que este mundo siga siendo mi sitio. No estoy segura de querer despertarme

Me doy cuenta que no es solo a Willem a quien estoy buscando; también es a Lulu

The day is ending; it's not coming back.

Eu deixo-te ir. Se ficares.

They can't explain it. But that doesn't make it any less real.

ve never toughened up enough to handle what I'd have to handle if I were to stay.

How come you have never written a song about me? I'm not really good at writing about things that make me happy.

So dark you almost miss it

It wasn't even a fight, really. We didn't shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.

when you feel sad, you look sad

Life can be hard and beautiful and messy, but hopefully, it will be long. If it is, you will see that it's unpredictable, and that the dark periods come, but they abate—sometimes with a lot of support—and the tunnel widens, allowing the sun back in.

everything seems smaller than life

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 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.

I cannot scream until my throat hurts or break a window with my fist until my hand bleeds, or pull my hair out in clumps until the pain in my scalp overcomes the one in my heart

You don't need to be good; you just need to be committed.