Quotes from Gayle Forman

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band; go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that too. .. And that would suck, but I'll do it. I can lose you like that, if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

the world feels so big when you're out in the wide open. It's like you don't have a place in it when you don't have a home." "Your place is right here," I whispered, laying down and hugging her close.

And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.

He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. "I'll keep you up here." He taps his temple. "Where you can't get lost.

Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch,

Anything that kills hope is a sin.

The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bad Whispers in my ear :"Better of Dead" Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret Kisses me gently when i wake up in a sweat "boo!

So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

And I bet she'll be a stronger person because of what she's lost today. I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

You had a pile of rocks, and you cleaned them up pretty and made a necklace. Meg got jewels, and she hung herself with them.

Go back to your ghost , I hear Bryn telling me. But she has it wrong. Bryn is the one who's been living with the ghost-the specter of a man who never stopped loving someone else.

Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a band on the rise - or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this -I was pretty sure it would've been.

Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.

But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture

I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.

A thousand suns rise from my chest.

All I wanted was for you to be okay. All I wanted was to help you. I would've done anything ." She drops her chin to her chest. "Yes, I know. You wanted to rescue me." "Damn, Mia. You say that like it's a bad thing.

Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?