Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.
Gayle Forman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
Writer
LA
California
Talk
Tell
Walls
Secrets
Wall
Wonder
Secret
More quotes by Gayle Forman
It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.
Gayle Forman
Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.
Gayle Forman
About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.
Gayle Forman
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.
Gayle Forman
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
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.
Gayle Forman
But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.
Gayle Forman
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
I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.
Gayle Forman
You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you can't blame me. You can't hate me for taking your word.
Gayle Forman
No one is who they pretend to be
Gayle Forman
Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden Hush
Gayle Forman
It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam
Gayle Forman
Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.
Gayle Forman
But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture
Gayle Forman
...no way through it but through it, I tell myself.
Gayle Forman
You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.
Gayle Forman
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.
Gayle Forman
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
Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.
Gayle Forman