Gayle Forman Quotes

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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