01Undated[My parents] always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
02UndatedIt's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - AdamGayle Forman / quote ↗
03UndatedBut sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
04UndatedHe gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
05UndatedYou thought too hard. Same with travel. 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 / quote ↗
06Undated...he starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
07UndatedWe can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
08UndatedI look at Ben now. And again I wonder how it is that we can feel so many of the same things and be so utterly different.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
09UndatedMy anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
11UndatedIt feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
12UndatedWhen you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
14UndatedSometimes 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..." she trails off.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
15UndatedIt was like finding out the world was made of gossamer and could be so easily ripped apart. To be solely at the mercy of fate.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
17UndatedMaybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
18UndatedSometimes 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.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
20UndatedFirefly, it is an act of bravery to feel your feelings. Oh, Meg would've loved that. It's an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
21UndatedShe looks at me, square in the eye. Taking aim. And then she pulls the trigger. “Because I hated you.”The wind, the noise, it all just goes quiet for a second, and I’m left with a dull ringing in my ear, like after a show, like after a heart monitor goes to flatline.“Hated me? WGayle Forman / quote ↗
22UndatedOh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
23UndatedIs this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
24UndatedI realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
