Alex

“Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“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?” And just like that, without thinking, without saying it in my head first, without arguing with myself for days, it’s out there.

“So,” she says, as if speaking to an audience under the bridge. “He finally says it.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year