Quotes by Gayle Forman

“I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own...”

“I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It’s the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I’ve lost myself to...”

“One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one”

“Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me.”

“Every fiction has its base in fact.”

“We were all forged in the crucible.”

“...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 thought. Then someone came along and ...”

“But then one time, you track down an email address and you're near a computer with Internet access so you don't have that nice cushion and you type what you're feeling and press send before you hav...”

“It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.”

“I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.”

“Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.”

“I'm not sure if the question's rhetorical or if she thinks I have a clue to her metaphysical mystery. And I'm in no state to answer either way because I'm crying. I don't realize it till I taste th...”

“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”

“How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?”

“My chips are all cashed out. There's nothing to lose. Or maybe I've already lost it and found it, and whatever else there might be to lose...”

“Adam's lips are set in a grime line. I can't tell if he's about to cry or about to punch the guard. For his sake, I hope it's the former. For you own, I hope the latter.”

“...Sleepovers and dance parties and those talks we would have until three in the morning that would make us feel lousy the next day because we’d slept like hell but also feel good because the talks...”

“[My parents] always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product.”

“It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam”

“But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own.”