Gayle Forman Quotes

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We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

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We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.

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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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All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

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If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.

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Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

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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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And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.

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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

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If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

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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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You talked to me, but you didn't. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to me. And the words that actually came out.

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Love is not something you protect. It's something you risk.

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

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The world feels so big when you're out in the wide open. It's like you don't have a place in it when you don't have a home." "Your place is right here," I whispered, laying down and hugging her close.

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

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Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.

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But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture

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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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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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Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

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Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

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It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.

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Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

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I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

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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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I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

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I think you're the sort of person who finds money on the ground and waves it in the air and asks if anyone has lost it. I think you cry in movies that aren't even sad because you have a soft heart, though you don't let it show. I think you do things that scare you, and that makes you braver than those adrenaline junkies who bungee-jump off bridges.

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It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.

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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.

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