“ 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 stop… Gayle Forman
“ 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, and… Gayle Forman
“ Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony. Gayle Forman
“ 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. Gayle Forman
“ ...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 thoug… Gayle Forman
“ 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 until… Gayle Forman
“ 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. Gayle Forman
“ Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny. Gayle Forman
“ 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. Gayle Forman
“ Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack. Gayle Forman
“ She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride. Gayle Forman
“ 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 every w… 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 kiss… Gayle Forman
“ Samo mislim da su sprovodi vrlo slični smrti. Možeš imati želje i planove, ali na kraju ipak nemaš kontrolu ni nad čim. Gayle Forman
“ But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body. Gayle Forman
“ Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind. Gayle Forman
“ Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, w… Gayle Forman