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Life Quotes by Gayle Forman

49 Life quotes by Gayle Forman

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A missed connection captures the surprise of life changing without warning. These thoughts reflect how love can stain us, how saying yes opens the path of life, and how accidents become forks that shape our story. They also note that we can watch from a distance while others pursue dreams, reminding us that living is a series of choices.

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“L'chaim!': To life!”

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Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.

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“The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.”

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“Isn't amazing how life is one thing and then becomes something else?”

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“TIME HAS A WEIGHT TO IT AND RIGHT NOW I FEEL IT HEAVY ON ME.”

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“about never knowing your life is changing until it's already happened”

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“Life is this big, fat, gigantic stinking mess. That's fhe beauty of it too.”

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“Another missed connection. Story of my life these days”

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I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

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Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself…

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“Ever hear the one about that dog that spent its life chasing cars and finally caught one—and had no idea what to…

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“I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.”

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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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“I drove her to the airport. She kissed me goodbye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then…

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“You win some, you lose some. And sometimes you win and lose at the same time. Life's a bloody cockup.”

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I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

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“Life might take you down different roads. But you get to decide which one to take.”

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It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted…

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“I didn’t believe it was happening. But it was. Just being here, being away, it was all so much easier in a…

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Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in…

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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…

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“maybe coming back to your old life would just be too painful, that maybe it’d be easier for you to erase us.…

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“This isn’t about her. It was catalyzed by her, and she’s woven up in it, but this is ultimately about him and…

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“The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time…

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“Everyone takes a turn, and when it gets to me, I shout out what Jewish people say at times like this: "L'chaim!"…

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“OrI just want out. Out of my existence. I find myself wishing that a lot lately. Not be dead. Or kill myself.…

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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.…

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“All I can think about is how fucked up it would be for your life to end here, now. I mean I…

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It would’ve been easier to die. It’s not that I want to be dead now. I don’t. I have a lot in…

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“It’s okay,” he tells me. “If you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than…

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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…

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“Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself…

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...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and…

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Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

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“A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.”

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Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

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I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.

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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…

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“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”

“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…

“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…

“Pero si voy a sobrevivir, no puedo nunca, jamás volver a repasar este día.”

“Some things are impossible to tear yourself away from.”

You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

“Do you honestly think that where you’re buried has any bearing on where your spirit lives?”

“Jazz je punk pro staré lidi.”

Hate me. Devastate me. Annihilate me. Re-create me. Re-create me. Won't you, won't you won't you re-create me.

“I can't lose you again. It really will kill me this time.”