Gayle Forman Quotes - Page 8

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Fake it till you make it actually worked.

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  Fake

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.49, 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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• My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.

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  Heartache, Feelings, Stomach

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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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• In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at the base of the Spanish Steps, and the ruins smelled like cat pee because of all the strays. The same thing happened in Prague, where I'd been yearning for some of the bohemianism of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But no, there were no fabulous artists, no guys who looked remotely like a young Daniel Day-Lewis. I saw this one mysterious-looking guy reading Sartre in a cafe, but then his cell phone rang and he started talking in aloud Texan twang.

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  Reading, Holiday, Cat

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.33, Penguin

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• How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?

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  One Day, Cease

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

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• A thousand suns rise from my chest.

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  Sun, Thousand, Sun Rise

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.117, Penguin

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• In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right.

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  Dark, Winter, Needs

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.52, 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.

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  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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• Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.

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  Sweat, Smell, Bottles

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.109, Penguin

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• I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.

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  Running, Fighting, If I Stay

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.92, Penguin

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• I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.

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  Car, Stuck In Traffic, Adrenaline

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.228, Penguin

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• Traveling isn't something you're good at. It's 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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• Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely

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  One Day, Goes On, Fluid

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.65, Penguin

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• You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

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  People, Way, Path

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Year”, p.21, Penguin

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• You just work through it. You just hang in there.

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  If I Stay, Hang In There

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.17, Penguin

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