Gayle Forman Quotes

“I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“If you stay, I’ll do whatever you want. I’ll quit the band; go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I’ll do that too. .. And that would suck, but I’ll do it. I can lose you like that, if I don’t lose you today. I’ll let you go. If you stay.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.”
― Gayle Forman, I Was Here

“I'll be your mess, you be mine
That was the deal that we had signed”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.”
― Gayle Forman, I Was Here

“In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“They may be complete strangers, with different lives and different problems, but there in that examination room they are measuring sadness the same way. They are measuring it in loss.”
― Gayle Forman, I Have Lost My Way

“But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“You must not waste your one day here. When the sun shines, you let it shine on you. Snow is always waiting.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“But the you who are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow. I love that you're fragile and tough, quiet and kick-ass.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“She's not my nurse but she comes up to Gran and Gramps just the same. "Don't you doubt for a second that she can hear you," she tells them. "She's aware if everything that's going on." She stands there with her hands on her hip. I can almost picture her snapping gum. Gran and Gramps stare at her, lapping up what she's telling them. "You might think the doctors or nurses or all this equipment is running the show," she says, gesturing to the wall of medical equipment. "Nuh-uh. She's running the show. Maybe she's just biding her time. So you talk to her. You tell her to take all the time she needs, but to come on back. You're waiting for her.”
― Gayle Forman

“I WANT TO CUT THROUGH THE SPACE THAT SEPERATES US.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“There was no point getting all worked up about a kiss. One kiss does not a relationship make. I'd kissed boys before, and usually by the next day the kiss had evaporated like a dewdrop in the sun.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Pero yo sabía que con Adam sí había motivos para armar revuelo. Lo sabía por el calor que recorrió mi cuerpo aquella noche, cuando me dejó en casa después del concierto y me besó una vez más en la puerta. Lo sabía porque me quedé despierta hasta el amanecer abrazada a la almohada. Porque no puede comer al día siguiente, ni borrarme la sonrisa de la cara.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“Her eyes were open, then on me again like they never left.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“TIME HAS A WEIGHT TO IT AND RIGHT NOW I FEEL IT HEAVY ON ME.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“But then one time, you track down an email address and you're near a computer with Internet access so you don't have that nice cushion and you type what you're feeling and press send before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it. And then you wait, and wait, and wait, and nothing comes back, so all those things you thought were so important to say, really, they weren't. They weren't worth saying at all.”
― Gayle Forman, I Was Here

“Some things are impossible to tear yourself away from.”
― Gayle Forman

“It had to do with the doubts. The same niggling doubts I always had about not belonging. I didn't feel like I belonged with my family, and now I didn't feel like I belonged with Adam, except unlike my family, who was stuck with me, Adam had chosen me, and this I didn't understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn't make sense.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“kau bisa saja mamiliki keinginan, rencana, tapi pada akhirnya, kau tidak bisa mengendalikannya”
― Tia

“La verdad y su opuesto son dos caras de una misma moneda.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Night

“Close your eyes, think of the year ahead. This is your chance. This can be the day it all changes.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“What about your parents? You can't let them down? Even if it means letting yourself down? Which I doubt they'd want for you. I understand about wanting to please your parents, to make them proud. It's a noble impulse, and I commend you for it. But at the end of the day, it's your education. You have to own it. And you should enjoy it.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“But the memories... one pops up, I push it away and then another appears.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“I don't believe in wishes coming true. But if I do, what would I wish for? Normally I have such willpower. Like a dieter resisting a cookie, I don't even let myself go there. But for the briefest second, I do.”
― Gayle Forman