Gayle Forman Quotes - Page 7

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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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• Anything can happen in one day.

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  One Day, Anything Can Happen, Happens

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• There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You’d better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security “bullet

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  Heart, Airports, Doctors

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.71, Penguin

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• Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush

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  Silence, Needs, Dover

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• Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

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  Escaping, Hands, Feelings

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.33, Penguin

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• It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.

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  Thinking, Scared

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Feb 03, 2013

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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.

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  Air, Water, Leaving

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Dec 07, 2015

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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.

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  Play, People, Trying

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Apr 12, 2014

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• That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

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  Grieving, Competition, Never Expect

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• The audience keeps singing, keeps making my case, and I just keep strumming until I get close enough to see her eyes. And then I start singing the chorus. Right to her. And she smiles at me, and it’s like we’re the only two people out here, the only ones who know what’s happening. Which is that this song we’re all singing together is being rewritten. It’s no longer an angry plea shouted to the void. Right here, on this stage, in front of eighty thousand people, it’s becoming something else. This is our new vow.

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  Song, Eye, Two

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• Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.

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  Pain, Hardship

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.63, Penguin

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• It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.

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  Fighting, Want, Might

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.87, Penguin

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

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  Children, Choices, Trust Me

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

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  Moving, Looks, Wheels

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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.

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  Girl, Mother, Father

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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.

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  Law, Withdrawal, Deposits

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• You don’t share me. You own me.

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  Share, Where She Went

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

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  Dark, Secret, Scare

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• Really? Was that how you quit me?

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  Quitting

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.91, Penguin

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• She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.

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  Airports, Bye, Labor Day

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Feb 27, 2014

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• What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear

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  Past, Sound, Ears

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.91, Penguin

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• The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bad Whispers in my ear :"Better of Dead" Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret Kisses me gently when i wake up in a sweat "boo!

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  Dream, Regret, Sleep

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• I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

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  Two, Survival, Being True

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Apr 24, 2015

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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?

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  Voice, Stronger, Doe

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.98, Penguin

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• And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.

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  Years, Life Is, If I Stay

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.79, Penguin

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