Gayle Forman Quotes - Page 8

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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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• I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

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  Life, Believe, Differences

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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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• 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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• 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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• But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.

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  Morning, Night, Play

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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.

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  Player, Men, Two

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.73, 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.

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  Fate, Legacy, Mia

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

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• Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

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  Rain, Snow, Dresses

  Gayle Forman (2015). “I Was Here”, p.177, Penguin

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• I like French fries," I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.

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  Children, Sound, Tvs

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.39, Penguin

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• My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.

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  Cutting, Kissing, Simple

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.134, Penguin

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• I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.

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  Years, Choices, Immature

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.37, Penguin

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• There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.' "She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.

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  Kissing, Hair, Waiting Rooms

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• Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations

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  Teenager, Parent, Glue

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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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• We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

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  Horse, Kings, Men

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.15, Penguin

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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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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Way, Freckles

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• Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.

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  Sarcasm, Chasms

  Gayle Forman (2009). “Sisters in Sanity”, p.29, Harper Collins

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