Gayle Forman Quotes - Page 7

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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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• So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

  Gayle Forman

  People, Normalcy, Contradiction

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.21, Penguin

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• And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.

  Gayle Forman

  Kissing, Light, Years

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.118, Penguin

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• It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

  Gayle Forman

  Stupidity, Kind, Ends

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• I want you to play me like a cello.

  Gayle Forman

  Play, Want, I Want You

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Oct 01, 2014

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• You don’t share me. You own me.

  Gayle Forman

  Share, Where She Went

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.123, Penguin

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• And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it’s my voice this time and it’s asking a question: How does she know?

  Gayle Forman

  Voice, Stronger, Doe

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.98, 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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• ...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

  Gayle Forman

  Way

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.175, Penguin

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• 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

  Law, Withdrawal, Deposits

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• 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

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• If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

  Gayle Forman

  Children, Choices, Trust Me

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.43, Penguin

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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

  Gayle Forman

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

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• It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

  Gayle Forman

  Thinking, Cities, Secret

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.53, Penguin

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• Anything can happen in one day.

  Gayle Forman

  One Day, Anything Can Happen, Happens

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• Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.

  Gayle Forman

  Balance, Okay, Universe

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Year”, p.38, Penguin

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• I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.

  Gayle Forman

  Want, Persons

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.119, Penguin

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• Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

  Gayle Forman

  Life Is, Excuse, Intention

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• Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure. It’s no big dramatic before-after. It’s more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times.

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  Thinking, Vacation, Birds Chirping

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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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• I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I’m the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I’ve done that. All by myself. All to myself.

  Gayle Forman

  Air, Water, Leaving

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Dec 07, 2015

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• It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it". Willem

  Gayle Forman

  Years, One Day, Hours

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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.

  Gayle Forman

  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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