Quotes by Gayle Forman

“Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obscuration. Red flowers dot the land in the breeze's chase while the land colored up in red after the k...”

“Accidents. It's all about the accidents.”

“To be or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. I had to memorize the whole speech for sophomore English, and I can still remember ever...”

“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want the men wind up suckered into things.”

“You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.”

“She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.”

“Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.”

“But now here I am: No money. No place to stay. It should be my worst nightmare. But I don't care. It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.”

“Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.”

“She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me.”

“You never know what will last."He said that earlier, about accidents, about never knowing which one is just a kink in the road and which one is a fork, about never knowing your life is changing unt...”

“...that whole day, being with Willem, being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I th...”

“I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me.”

“Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.”

“Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.”

“After that, I became kind of fascinated by her and by what I guessed was her ability to hear music in the silence. Back then, I'd wanted to be able to do that, too. So I took to watching her play, ...”

“I do have a point to all this,” she continues. “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 s...”

“Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.”

“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 wisps of her hair...”

“Dying is easy. Living is hard”