“ Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being. Gayle Forman
“ She looks at me, square in the eye. Taking aim. And then she pulls the trigger. “Because I hated you.”The wind, the noise, it all just goes quiet for a second, and I’m left with a dull ringing in my e… Gayle Forman
“ Firefly, it is an act of bravery to feel your feelings. Oh, Meg would've loved that. It's an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die. Gayle Forman
“ Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was. Gayle Forman
“ It was like finding out the world was made of gossamer and could be so easily ripped apart. To be solely at the mercy of fate. Gayle Forman
“ 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. Gayle Forman
“ It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen. Gayle Forman
“ My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself. Gayle Forman
“ I look at Ben now. And again I wonder how it is that we can feel so many of the same things and be so utterly different. Gayle Forman
“ We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day. Gayle Forman
“ ...he starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines. Gayle Forman
“ You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents. Gayle Forman
“ He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every ti… Gayle Forman
“ But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own. Gayle Forman
“ [My parents] always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product. Gayle Forman