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Gayle Forman Inspirational Quotes (134)

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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.
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One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.
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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
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Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth
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About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.
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It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.
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But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.
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In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right.
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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.
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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, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.
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Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
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I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.
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Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.
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I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.
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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 of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.
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Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
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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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Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.
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There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn’t looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I’d just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me.
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Really? Was that how you quit me?
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Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations
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..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.
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Love can make you immortal
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How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?
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