Erin > Erin's Quotes

“You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love... This is being in love. It's something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“You don’t share me. You own me.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“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.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“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.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“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.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.”
― Gayle Forman , Just One Day

“There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“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?”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“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.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“I understood all that in my head, but I still didn‟t believe it in my heart.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day