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

Gayle Forman

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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
Writer
LA
California
Choices
Sometimes
Make
Life

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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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But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
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The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.
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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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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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My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.
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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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What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
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A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.
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I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.
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I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.
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I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.
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It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.
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The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.
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You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.
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Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?
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Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.
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I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.
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I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.
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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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