Quote

That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

Gayle Forman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
Writer
LA
California
Never
Grieving
Competition
Expect
Thing

More quotes by Gayle Forman

Image
I like French fries, I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.
Gayle Forman
Image
And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.
Gayle Forman
Image
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.
Gayle Forman
Image
If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?
Gayle Forman
Image
And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.
Gayle Forman
Image
I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.
Gayle Forman
Image
Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.
Gayle Forman
Image
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
Image
Closure. I loathe that word.
Gayle Forman
Image
I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.
Gayle Forman
Image
What would you do if you had to choose?
Gayle Forman
Image
It's nice, this. The canal. He looks at me. You. I'll bet you say that to all the canals.
Gayle Forman
Image
In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
Gayle Forman
Image
The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.
Gayle Forman
Image
Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely
Gayle Forman
Image
Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.
Gayle Forman
Image
But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.
Gayle Forman
Image
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.
Gayle Forman
Image
Willem tsk-tsks. You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.
Gayle Forman
Image
I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.
Gayle Forman