Gayle Forman Quotes - Page 8

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia

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  Hate, Thinking, Mia

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• Mia,” Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. “You’re starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?

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  Best Friend, Girl, Gun

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.58, Penguin

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• Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

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  Stains

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.103, Penguin

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• He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

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  Lost, Found

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 16, 2015

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• And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

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  Matter, Still In Love, Lost

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.217, Penguin

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• He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. "I'll keep you up here." He taps his temple. "Where you can't get lost.

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  Long, Looks, Temples

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.51, Penguin

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• But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away. He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

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  Cutting, Night, Wish

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• I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.

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  Skills, Kitchen, Making Friends

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.125, Penguin

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• I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.

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  Doors, Ideas, People

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.133, Penguin

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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 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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• 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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• Anything can happen in one day.

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  One Day, Anything Can Happen, Happens

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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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• I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.

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  Inspiration, Fighting, Brave

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 06, 2015

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• Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

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  Deceptive

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.20, Penguin

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• Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.

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  Travel, Breathing, Inspiring Travel

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 05, 2015

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