But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow. I love that you’re fragile and tough, quiet and kick-ass. Hell, you’re one of the punkest girls I know, no matter who you listen to or what you wear.

— Gayle Forman

Gayle Forman Quotes

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

— Gayle Forman
Life Short About Life Choices

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.

— Gayle Forman

Travelling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it.

— Gayle Forman

I don’t hate you. I don’t think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia.

— Gayle Forman

It’s just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. – Adam.

— Gayle Forman

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that’s the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

— Gayle Forman

She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.

— Gayle Forman

I’m also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I’m on wasn’t to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

— Gayle Forman

The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there.

— Gayle Forman

I don’t know how to be a friend. I don’t know how to be anything.

— Gayle Forman

I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for; it’s Lulu too.

— Gayle Forman

No one is who they pretend to be.

— Gayle Forman

Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his lips are soft and his kiss is gentle, it feels like a knife jamming into the electrical socket. It feels like the moment when I go live.

— Gayle Forman

Travelling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing. 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

Why get stained when getting dirty is so much more fun.

— Gayle Forman
Fun

Stains are even worse when you’re the only one who can see them.

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

He can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him to be.

— 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 time.

— Gayle Forman
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