Quotes from Gayle Forman

It's like the piano and the cello are being poured into my body, the same way the IV and blood transfusions are. 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 anymore. Until I cannot be like this a second longer.

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I tried to take it down, but it took so much effort to even make cracks. And then I got tired of trying. Then I justified it. This was just how adult relationships were, how love felt once you had a few battle scars.

I've since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

Accidents. It's all about the accidents.

I do have a point to all this," she continues. "There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family." She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. "You still have a family," she whispers.

One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.

It's funny how once you start pretending, you realize how much everyone else is too.

I actually feel something in my chest open, a feeling so intense, it's like my heart's about to burst. And I just let it. I just let it out.

It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.

Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.

Because you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not." "If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.

he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.

It's ok if you want to stop fighting.

L'chaim!': To life!

I can't imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head—the comfort that would've brought.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

I know. So, I was angry with you. I didn't know why. I was angry with the world. I did know why. I hated all my therapists for being useless. I was this little ball of self-destructive fury, and none of them could do anything but tell me that I was a little ball of self-destructive fury. [...] I knew I was angry. Tell me what to do with that anger, please.

I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

Even if you find him. Even if he didn't leave you on purpose, he can't possibly live up to the person you've built him into." It's not like the thought hasn't occurred to me. I get that the chances of finding him are small, but the chances of finding him as I remember him are even smaller. But I just keep going back to what my dad always says, about how when you lose something, you have to visualize the last place you had it. And I found?and then lost?so many things in Paris.

The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust,

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

I'll go where you go." A simple statement that feels like a blanket.