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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
Writer
LA
California
Deceptive
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Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.
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Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.
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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
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That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.
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Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
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Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his lips are soft and his kiss is gentle, it feels like a knife jamming into the electrical socket. It feels like the moment when I go live
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Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.
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She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.
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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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So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.
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Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?
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It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam
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But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture
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I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.
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Love can make you immortal
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The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.
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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.
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Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.
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I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.
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In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right.
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