Quote

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

Gayle Forman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
Writer
LA
California
Played
Already
Dead
Future
Past
Backward
Whoever

More quotes by Gayle Forman

Image
The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant other times, they change everything.
Gayle Forman
Image
It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge, Henry said.
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
And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.
Gayle Forman
Image
Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.
Gayle Forman
Image
You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.
Gayle Forman
Image
You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love
Gayle Forman
Image
Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.
Gayle Forman
Image
Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.
Gayle Forman
Image
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.
Gayle Forman
Image
The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bad Whispers in my ear :Better of Dead Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret Kisses me gently when i wake up in a sweat boo!
Gayle Forman
Image
I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.
Gayle Forman
Image
What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
Gayle Forman
Image
Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.
Gayle Forman
Image
I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.
Gayle Forman
Image
By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.
Gayle Forman
Image
A thousand suns rise from my chest.
Gayle Forman
Image
And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.
Gayle Forman
Image
Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.” “If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.
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