The Best Red Forman quotes

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love. — Gayle Forman

It was just one day and it’s been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it’. Willem — Gayle Forman

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don’t know if those two things can both be true, but that’s how it was. — Gayle Forman

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don’t put yourself in the path of it, you miss it. — Gayle Forman

You forget, time doesn’t exist anymore. You gave it to me. — Gayle Forman

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it’s my voice this time and it’s asking a question: How does she know? — Gayle Forman

I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying. — Gayle Forman

He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. ‘I’ll keep you up here.’ He taps his temple. ‘Where you can’t get lost. — 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

Anything can happen in one day. — Gayle Forman

It’s just one day, one twenty–four–hour period to get yourself through.–Adam — Gayle Forman

I`m surrounded by people and feel alone. — Gayle Forman

In the middle of L.A.’s sunny non–winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right. — Gayle Forman

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind. — Gayle Forman

I actually feel something in my chest open, a feeling so intense, it’s like my heart’s about to burst. And I just let it. I just let it out. — Gayle Forman

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. — Gayle Forman

It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen. — Gayle Forman

Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won’t feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away. — Gayle Forman

The world feels so big when you’re out in the wide open. It’s like you don’t have a place in it when you don’t have a home.’ ‘Your place is right here,’ I whispered, laying down and hugging her close. — Gayle Forman

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. — Gayle Forman

Travelling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents. — Gayle Forman

Forward momentum. That’s my new motto. No regrets. And no going back. — Gayle Forman

How can it be so unclear to her when it’s like the fingers on my hand to me? — Gayle Forman

Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith. — Gayle Forman

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you. — Gayle Forman

Or maybe it’s not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes. — Gayle Forman

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take. — Gayle Forman

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. — Gayle Forman

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives. — Gayle Forman

Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain. — Gayle Forman

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that’s the beauty of it, too. — Gayle Forman

Suddenly, it’s all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing’s sacred. Everything’s fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me. — Gayle Forman

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. — Gayle Forman

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that’s the thing with liberation. It comes at a price. — Gayle Forman

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours–life is rules by accidents–isn’t that just one huge excuse for passivity? — Gayle Forman

It’s just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That’s how life works. — Gayle Forman

I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver. — Gayle Forman

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. — Gayle Forman

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. — 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

In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia’s a part of our history, and we’re among the shards of her legacy. — Gayle Forman

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone. — Gayle Forman

And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips. — Gayle Forman

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you’ve built yourself a different one. — Gayle Forman

And yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever. — Gayle Forman

You’re just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they’re already in us. That’s why we pretend them in the first place. — Gayle Forman