Where She Went Quotes

• But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

  Gayle Forman

  Yesterday, Needs, Today

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 11, 2014

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• I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

  Gayle Forman

  Hate, Needed

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Feb 15, 2014

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• I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

  Gayle Forman

  Deals, Mess, Mines

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.37, Penguin

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• There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

  Gayle Forman

  Relationship, Thinking, Demand

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jun 05, 2015

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• I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

  Adam Wilde

  Yesterday, Today

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• You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

  Gayle Forman

  Trying, Busy, You Left Me

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.92, Penguin

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• You don’t share me. You own me.

  Gayle Forman

  Share

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

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• First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate

  Gayle Forman

  Waiting, Firsts, Rejects

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.124, Penguin

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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.

  Gayle Forman

  Life, Believe, Differences

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• I`m surrounded by people and feel alone.

  Gayle Forman

  People, Normalcy, Feels

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

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• Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.

  Gayle Forman

  Vacation, Special, Hey

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.109, 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.

  Gayle Forman

  Morning, Night, Play

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• Hate me. Devastate me. Annihilate me. Re-create me. Re-create me. Won't you, won't you won't you re-create me.

  Gayle Forman

  Hate, Hate Me

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• It would’ve been easier to die. It’s not that I want to be dead now. I don’t. I have a lot in my life that I get satisfaction from, that I love. But some days, especially in the beginning, it was so hard. And I couldn’t help but think that it would’ve been so much simpler to go with the rest of them. But you—you asked me to stay. You begged me to stay. You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow.

  Gayle Forman

  Thinking, Promise, Want

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.94, Penguin

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• I'll be your mess,you be mine That was the deal that we had signed I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste Gas masks,gloves,to keep us safe But now i'm alone in an empty room Staring down immaculate doom "Messy

  Gayle Forman

  Empty Rooms, Gloves, Safe

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jul 15, 2015

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• And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

  Gayle Forman

  Night, Careers, Firsts

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.113, Penguin

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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.

  Gayle Forman

  Thinking, Vacation, Birds Chirping

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• Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.

  Gayle Forman

  Stars, Home, Light

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.19, Penguin

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• I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.

  Gayle Forman

  Tears, Want, Cry

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.73, Penguin

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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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• In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

  Gayle Forman

  Feelings, Absence, Calculus

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.53, Penguin

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• I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close. Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough.

  Gayle Forman

  Kissing, Night, Enough

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.23, Penguin

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• Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It’s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" “blue

  Gayle Forman

  Blue, Ties, Peaceful

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.99, Penguin

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• It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

  Gayle Forman

  One Day, Twenties, Four

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• Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening Lick the blood that covers me She’s the last one standing “Roulette” Collateral Damage, Track 11

  Gayle Forman

  Gun, Blood, Two

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.59, Penguin

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