Gayle Forman Quotes - Page 10

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• Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his lips are soft and his kiss is gentle, it feels like a knife jamming into the electrical socket. It feels like the moment when I go live

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  Kissing, Knives, Long

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

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• Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

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  Travel, Breathing, Too Much

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• Travelling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it.

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  People, Dancing, Talent

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• You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you can't blame me. You can't hate me for taking your word.

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  Hate, Promise, Sacred

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.94, Penguin

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• Hate me. Devastate me. Annihilate me. Re-create me. Re-create me. Won't you, won't you won't you re-create me.

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  Hate, Hate Me, Where She Went

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• Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

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  Running, Dutch, Violent

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.25, Penguin

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• He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be

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  Persons, Built

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.168, Penguin

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

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  Waiting, Firsts, Rejects

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.124, Penguin

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• Dear Willem: I’ve been trying to forget about you and our day in Paris for nine months now, but as you can see, it’s not going all that well. I guess more than anything, I want to know, did you just leave? If you did, it’s okay. I mean it’s not, but if I can know the truth, I can get over it. And if you didn’t leave, I don’t know what to say. Except I’m sorry that I did. I don’t know what your response will be at getting this letter, like a ghost from your past. But no matter what happened, I hope you’re okay.

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  Sorry, Mean, Past

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.140, Penguin

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• There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn’t looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I’d just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me.

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  Fire, Feet, Attention

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.55, Penguin

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• Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

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  Thinking, Differences, Knowing

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• 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.

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  Keys, Ifs

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Year”, p.80, Penguin

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• I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

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  Fate, Hands, Actors

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• 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.

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  Giving, Pay, Theory

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

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  Choke, Manage, I Can

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.113, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Night, Careers, Firsts

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.113, Penguin

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• It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.

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  Next, Accidents, Temporary

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.35, Penguin

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• It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.

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  Real, Feelings, Good Movie

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.17, Penguin

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• Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.

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  Vacation, Special, Hey

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.109, Penguin

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• I'll let you go. If you stay.

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  Letting You Go, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Oct 14, 2014

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• Closure. I loathe that word.

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  Closure, Loathe

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.109, Penguin

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• I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we always let go. But after we bobbed to the surface, we'd climb out of the pool, clamber up the high-dive ladder, clasp hands, and do it again. We're swimming separately now. I get that. Maybe it's just what you have to do to keep above water. But who knows? Maybe one day, we'll climb out, grab hands, and jumo again.

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  Letting Go, Swimming, Thinking

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• Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.

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  Real, Adventure, Ideas

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.114, Random House

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• If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.

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  Circles, Water, Mars

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jun 21, 2014

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• Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad’s songs, Adam’s songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

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  Song, Dad, Thinking

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.107, Penguin

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