Gayle Forman Quotes - Page 3

It takes a certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise.
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We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together. Mia's legs are off the ground, wrapped around my waist, her hands dipping in my hair, my hands tangled in hers. And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.
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I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. Her hair, long and dark, is down now, swimming damply against her bare shoulders, which are still milky white and covered with the constellation of freckles that I used to kiss. The scar on her left shoulder, the one that used to be an angry red weld is silvery pink now. Almost like the latest rage in tattoo accessories. Almost pretty.
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We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.
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I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.
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My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.
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In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
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Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.
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It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome.
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Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.
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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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But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.
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Fake it 'till you make it.
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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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And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.
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Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
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Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.
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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.
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Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.
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We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.
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Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.
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You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me.
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I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.
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Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.
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But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.
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There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.
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If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.
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Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal
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