“ Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic an… Gayle Forman
“ It takes a certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise. Gayle Forman
“ We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together. Mia's legs are off the ground, wrapped around my waist, her hands dipping in my hair, my hands… Gayle Forman
“ I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me.… Gayle Forman
“ We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong. Gayle Forman
“ I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like. Gayle Forman
“ My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon. Gayle Forman
“ In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's. Gayle Forman
“ It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome. Gayle Forman
“ Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take. Gayle Forman
“ And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He show… Gayle Forman
“ But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today. Gayle Forman
“ So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't k… Gayle Forman
“ And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out. Gayle Forman
“ Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out. Gayle Forman
“ Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock th… Gayle Forman
“ I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting. Gayle Forman
“ We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day. Gayle Forman
