Gayle Forman Quotes - Page 8

I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

You don’t share me. You own me.

By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it’s my voice this time and it’s asking a question: How does she know?

I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.

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.

It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure. It’s no big dramatic before-after. It’s more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times.

I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for almost three years, I managed not to miss any of them. And then I spent that one day with that one girl. One day ... It was like she gave me her whole self, and somehow as a result, I gave her more of myself than I even realized there was to give. But then she was gone. And only after I'd been filled up by her, by that day, did I understand how empty I really was.

Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.

It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.

I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.

Traveling isn't something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing.

But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture

Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely

You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.' "She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.

I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.

Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.

Anything can happen in one day.