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Travelling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it.

Gayle Forman

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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
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Whistling
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I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it. When you travel, you put yourself out there. It's not always great. Sometimes it's terrible. But other times ... [...] It's not so bad.
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There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.
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It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.
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Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement Stitch.
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Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely
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Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.
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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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..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.
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You don’t share me. You own me.
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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.
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Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.
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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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You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.
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What would you do if you had to choose?
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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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I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for it’s Lulu too.
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The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant other times, they change everything.
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Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.
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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.
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Willem tsk-tsks. You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.
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