Quotes by Gayle Forman

About Gayle Forman:

is an American young adult author.
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We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

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I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

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I'll keep you here.' He taps his temple. 'Where you can't get lost.

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It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

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Annoyance has made me bilingual.

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The day is ending; it's not coming back.

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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.

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...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 showed me there was a door in the room. One that I'd ...

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I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.

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I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we al...

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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 happiness.

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But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away. He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification o...

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Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.

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I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

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The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.

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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 showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself ho...

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But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether be, but to be?

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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 switches to his deepest Shakespeare voice--'I shall ...

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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 time.

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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.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameGayle Forman
  • DescriptionAmerican writer of Young Adult novels
  • BornJune 5, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksIf I Stay