Quote

You don’t share me. You own me.

Gayle Forman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
Writer
LA
California
Share

More quotes by Gayle Forman

Image
It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam
Gayle Forman
Image
A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.
Gayle Forman
Image
It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.
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
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 how to get found.
Gayle Forman
Image
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
Image
Really? Was that how you quit me?
Gayle Forman
Image
Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.
Gayle Forman
Image
What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
Gayle Forman
Image
If I stay. If I live. It's up to me.
Gayle Forman
Image
In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right.
Gayle Forman
Image
How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?
Gayle Forman
Image
I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.
Gayle Forman
Image
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
Image
Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.
Gayle Forman
Image
Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?
Gayle Forman
Image
Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.
Gayle Forman
Image
Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.
Gayle Forman
Image
But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture
Gayle Forman
Image
This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am. The look he gives me is withering. Do you?
Gayle Forman