Gayle Forman Quotes

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I've been feeling something else. Like I'm about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.

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

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Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

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Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.

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But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

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

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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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Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

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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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I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

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Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.

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Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.

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You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?

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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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I can't imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head—the comfort that would've brought.

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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.

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

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

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Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.

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It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

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Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I tried to take it down, but it took so much effort to even make cracks. And then I got tired of trying. Then I justified it. This was just how adult relationships were, how love felt once you had a few battle scars.

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Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy. Really? Was that how you quit me?

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And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.

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How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

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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.

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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.

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I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

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If I stay. If I live. It's up to me. All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It's not up to the doctors. It's not up to the absentee angels. It's not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It's up to me.

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