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Gayle Forman

Born 1970 AD; death year unknown

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1970 AD

...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.

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02c. 1970 AD

I wasn't in danger today," I tell him in a choked voice. "I escaped danger today." And I did... I feel like the whole day has been an electrical shock, paddles straight to my heart, bringing me out of a lifelong torpor I hadn't even known I was in. "I escaped," I repeat.

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03c. 1970 AD

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

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04c. 1970 AD

After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

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05c. 1970 AD

In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

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06c. 1970 AD

It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.

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