Gayle Forman Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.

  Gayle Forman

  Kissing, Sky, Giving

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.79, Penguin

• 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.

  Gayle Forman

  Giving, Pay, Theory

• I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

  Gayle Forman

  Kissing, Giving, Magic

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.77, Penguin

• He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time.

  Gayle Forman

  Kindness, People, Generosity

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.210, Penguin

• I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for almost three years, I managed not to miss any of them. And then I spent that one day with that one girl. One day ... It was like she gave me her whole self, and somehow as a result, I gave her more of myself than I even realized there was to give. But then she was gone. And only after I'd been filled up by her, by that day, did I understand how empty I really was.

  Gayle Forman

  Girl, Mother, Father

• This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am." The look he gives me is withering. "Do you?

  Gayle Forman

  Baby, Self, Who I Am

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.130, Penguin

• 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 don't know when exactly I started giving myself this daily pep talk--or why. It sounds like a twelve-step mantra and I'm not in Anything Anonymous, though to read some of the crap they write about me, you'd think I should be. I have the kind of life a lot of people would probably sell a kidney to just experience a bit of. But still, 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.

  Gayle Forman

  Morning, Writing, Thinking

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.8, Penguin

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