Quotes from Gayle Forman

Sometimes the best way to find out what you're supposed to do is by doing the thing you're not supposed to do.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her 'wife.

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.

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love

Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.

You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?

It would've been easier to die. It's not that I want to be dead now. I don't. I have a lot in my life that I get satisfaction from, that I love. But some days, especially in the beginning, it was so hard. And I couldn't help but think that it would've been so much simpler to go with the rest of them. But you—you asked me to stay. You begged me to stay. You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow.

This is the you I like. You definitely dressed sexier and are, you know, blond, and that's different. But the you who 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.

I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.

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.

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.

A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.

First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate

We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen"-Adam "It still scares me"- Mia

C'est courageux d'aller dans l'inconnu': It is courageous to go into territory unknown.

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

All I can think about is how fucked up it would be for your life to end here, now. I mean I know that your life if fucked up no matter what now, forever. And I'm not dumb enough to think that I can undo that, that anyone can. But I can't wrap my mind around the notion of you not getting old, having kids, going to Juilliard, getting to play that cello in front of a huge audience, so that they can get the chills the way I do every time I see you pick up your bow, every time I see you smile at me.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

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

We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.