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Quotes About Commitment

If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?
~ Gayle Forman
Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy." "Really? Was that how you quit me?" And just like that, without thinking, without saying it in my head first, without arguing with myself for days, it's out there. "So," she says, as if speaking to an audience under the bridge. "He finally says it.
~ Gayle Forman
I failed her in life. But I won't fail her in death.
~ Gayle Forman
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...
~ Gayle Forman
Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.
~ Gayle Forman
If you stay, I'll do whatever you want...But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too...I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.
~ Gayle Forman
Si te quedas, haré lo que quieras. Dejaré la banda, me iré contigo a Nueva York. Pero si necesitas que me aleje de ti, lo haré. Quizá volver a tu antigua vida sea demasiado doloroso para ti, quizá te resultaría más fácil borrarnos a todos. Y eso sería una mierda, pero lo aceptaría. Me siento capacitado para perderte de esa manera, si no te pierdo hoy. Prometo que te dejaré marchar, pero has de quedarte.»
~ Gayle Forman
And while I want to spare Mia the circus, I don't care if the whole world knows we're together.
~ Gayle Forman
There is a world of difference, Lulu, between falling in love and being in love. [...] You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love.
~ Gayle Forman
Me gustaba tan poco pisar en falso como iniciar a tientas un nuevo movimiento. Por eso practicaba tanto, para encontrarme en terreno seguro y perfeccionar luego los detalles.
~ Gayle Forman
If you stay, I'll do whatever you want.
~ Gayle Forman
Tengo que cumplir mi promesa. La promesa de dejarla ir. De realmente dejarla ir. Para que podamos seguir los dos.-Adam
~ Gayle Forman
Él mira una de las fotos por largo tiempo. Entonces me mira. —Te guardaré aquí. —Se golpea la sien—. A donde no puedas perderte.
~ Gayle Forman
La persona que eres esta noche es la misma de la que estaba enamorado ayer, la misma de la que estaré enamorado mañana.
~ Gayle Forman
Meg invited me to come again, but I always had reasons why I couldn't: my schedule was busy, bus fare wasn't cheap. Both of which were true, even if they weren't the truth.
~ Gayle Forman
El amor no es algo que proteges. Es algo por lo que arriesgas.
~ Gayle Forman
What about my parents?" "What about your parents?" "I can't let them down." "Even if it means letting yourself down? Which I doubt they'd want for you.
~ Gayle Forman
kind of couple to talk about the future, about where our relationship was going, but with things suddenly
~ Gayle Forman
In a funny way, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine. Because even though he had blue hair and tattoos and wore leather jackets and worked in a record store, he wanted to marry Mom back at a time when the rest of their friends were still having drunken one-night stands. "Girlfriend is such a stupid word," he said. "I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her "wife"'.
~ Gayle Forman
Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.
~ Gayle Forman
You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love... This is being in love. It's something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to.
~ Gayle Forman
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.
~ Gayle Forman
No valía la pena armar revuelo por un solo beso. Un beso no hace una relación.
~ Gayle Forman
I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste Gas masks, gloves, to keep us safe But now I'm alone in an empty room Staring down immaculate doom
~ Gayle Forman