There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room.… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen. — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
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… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right. — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
It's like the piano and the cello are being poured into my body, the same way the IV and blood transfusions are.… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
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… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
...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… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind. — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
It's not that people like sad movies that make us feel like, "Oh, my god, what a bummer." We like emotionally moving… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I actually feel something in my chest open, a feeling so intense, it’s like my heart’s about to burst. And I just… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Waiting for Vengeance' Well, what is this? What am I coming to? And beyond that, what am I gonna do? Now there’s blankness Where… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Adam's lips are set in a grime line. I can't tell if he's about to cry or about to punch the guard. For his… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“It’s like an ache, how much I miss them. How much I miss her. I’m so tired of missing things I don’t have” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Whoever said that the past isn’t dead had it backward. It’s the future that’s already dead, already played out. This whole night has been… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“We drank Pepsi out of these old-fashioned bottles that Dad had found at some ancient country store, and I swear they tasted better than… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Pero si voy a sobrevivir, no puedo nunca, jamás volver a repasar este día.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't. — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Do you honestly think that where you’re buried has any bearing on where your spirit lives?” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
