Quotes by Gayle Forman

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

“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.”

“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...”

“We were all forged in the crucible.”

“Dying is easy. Living is hard”

“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 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. Its the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that Ive lost myself to -...”

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

“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...”

“...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 ...”

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

“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...”

“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.”

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

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