Quotes by Gayle Forman

“Don'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.”

“The talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life.”

“If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me.All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It’s not up to the doctors. It’s not up to the absentee angels. It’s not even up to God who,...”

“Willem laughs again. The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happ...”

“The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.”

“Why wasn't I nicer to Alice? When she has been nothing but sweet to me? When I actually like her? I know I should say something to her, but before I can find the words, she's tooting her horn and d...”

“Look I accept Adam because you love him. And I assume he accepts me because you love me...your love binds us.'...The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim's notion that they were somehow ...”

“You must not waste your one day here. When the sun shines, you let it shine on you. Snow is always waiting.”

“Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.”

“He looks at me and then, reverting to the voice he'd used with Kendra, says, 'If homegirls wanna see me as ghetto trash'--he stops and switches to his lispy, sassy voice--'or big-ass queer'--now he...”

“I've hardly taken any pictures on this trip. Melanie teased me about it, to which I always said I preferred to experience something rather than obsessively record it. Though, really, the truth of i...”

“Pictures can be pretty deceptive.”

“To be, or not to be: that is the question. That’s from Hamlet’s - maybe Shakespeare’s - most famous soliloquy. […] But what if Shakespeare - and Hamlet - were asking the wrong question? What if the...”

“That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.”

“I'd wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that”

“Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.”“Really? Was that how you quit me?” And just like that, without thinking, without saying it in my he...”

“even though I think that Mia and I have enough secrets between the two of us at this point”

“Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd g...”

“I'll be your mess, you be mineThat was the deal that we had signed”

“...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.”