Gayle Forman Quotes - Page 6

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• In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.

  Gayle Forman

  Fate, Legacy, Mia

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.47, Penguin

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• I don't know how to be a friend. I don't know how to be anything.

  Gayle Forman

  Know How, Knows

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.135, Penguin

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• You talked to me, but you didn’t. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to me. And the words that actually came out.

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  Two, Conversation, Wanted

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.92, Penguin

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• We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

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  Matter, Way, Obsession

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.104, Penguin

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• Sometimes you can't know until you know.

  Gayle Forman

  Sometimes, Knows

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.55, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Dust, Ovation, Bows

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.132, Penguin

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• But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.

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  Ocean, World, Bigs

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Year”, p.71, Penguin

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• Do you do that a lot? Move on?" "Maybe. But only because I travel a lot." She taps put a beat on the steering wheel, audible only to herseld. "Or maybe you travel a lot because it lets you move on." "Perhaps." ........ I look out the window. The jungle is everywhere. I look back at her. "Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

  Gayle Forman

  Moving, Looks, Wheels

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• She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Byrn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me.

  Gayle Forman

  Beautiful, Way, Freckles

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• So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.

  Gayle Forman

  Voice, Mia, Irrational Fear

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.87, Penguin

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• The whole night had been a mistake. It's not going to let me rewind. Or unmake the mistakes I've made.Or the promises I've mad. Or have her back. Or have me back.

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  Mistake, Night, Mad

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• For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of double happiness and we were arguing over the meaning. She’d thought it meant the luck of the boy getting the job and the girl. But I’d disagreed. It was the couplet fitting together, the two halves finding each other. It was love. But maybe we were both wrong, and both right. It’s not either or, not luck or love. Not fate or will. Maybe for double happiness, you need both.

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  Girl, Jobs, Fate

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• I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for; it’s Lulu too.

  Gayle Forman

  Realizing

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

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• No one is who they pretend to be

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  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.122, Penguin

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• We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen"-Adam "It still scares me"- Mia

  Gayle Forman

  Dark, Secret, Scare

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• 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.

  Gayle Forman

  School, Years, Two

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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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• Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.

  Gayle Forman

  Want, Propositions, Knows

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 20, 2014

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• By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.

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  Years, Too Late, Firsts

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• Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.

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  Mistress, Fickle, Liz

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.66, Penguin

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• 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.

  Gayle Forman

  Player, Men, Two

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.73, Penguin

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• Why get stained when getting dirty is so much more fun

  Gayle Forman

  Fun, Dirty

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.44, Penguin

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

  Gayle Forman

  Persons, Built

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

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• You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

  Gayle Forman

  Play, People, Trying

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Apr 12, 2014

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• Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.

  Gayle Forman

  Miracle, Path

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Feb 04, 2013

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