01c. 1970 ADI'll keep you here.' He taps his temple. 'Where you can't get lost.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
02c. 1970 ADIf you could know going in that twenty-five years of love would break you in the end, would you risk it? Because isn’t it inevitable? When 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 ↗
03c. 1970 ADAnd just in general, I'm better. Better than I've been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn't break my hear. But I'm beginning to wonder if in some roundabout way, she fixed it.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
04c. 1970 ADBut then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away.He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
07c. 1970 ADSometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
08c. 1970 ADWhen we got back home, Gramps dropped me off and enveloped me in a hug. Normally, he was a handshaker, maybe a back-patter on really special occasions. His hug was strong and tight, and I knew it was his way of telling me that he'd had a wonderful time.“Me, too, Gramps,” I whispered.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
09c. 1970 ADBut Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?Gayle Forman / quote ↗
10c. 1970 ADFor my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
11c. 1970 ADNext time I get sick, you can tell that to me. You can be my girl in the mountains.""Okay", I say."I'll be your mountain girl and take care of you.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
13c. 1970 ADAllyson meanwhile is remembering. Why this person? All the things she has told herself, or other people have told her - infatuation or Paris or good acting or lust - no longer hold water, because she remembers so viscerally and feels it anew. It's not any of that. It's not even him. Or all him. It's her. The way she can be with him.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
14c. 1970 ADI don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -MiaGayle Forman / quote ↗
16c. 1970 ADRemember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
17c. 1970 ADI think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we always let go. But after we bobbed to the surface, we'd climb out of the pool, clamber up the high-dive ladder, clasp hands, and do it again. We're swimming separately now. I get that. Maybe it's just what you have to do to keep above water. But who knows? Maybe one day, we'll climb out, grab hands, and jumo again.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
18c. 1970 ADI didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
22c. 1970 ADIt wasn't even a fight, really. We didn't shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
23c. 1970 ADI don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
24c. 1970 ADDon't worry, I plan on living a long time.""Why are you making a bucket list, then?""Because if you wait until you're really dying, it's too late.Gayle Forman / quote ↗
