“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… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying. — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“I'm so tired of avoiding the unavoidable, because I feel like I've been disappointing her for such a long time.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“During all the time we were together, I don’t think I ever found out. But once I was with her, I didn’t… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“But then one time, you track down an email address and you're near a computer with Internet access so you don't have… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“When we got back home, Gramps dropped me off and enveloped me in a hug. Normally, he was a handshaker, maybe a… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Next time I get sick, you can tell that to me. You can be my girl in the mountains." "Okay", I say."I'll… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation,… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Tabula rasa... time to hacer borrón y cuenta nueva , wipe the board clean," the singer chants. Wipe the board clean? I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival.… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“It's okay,' he tells me. 'If you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“I’ve given up on Lulu before. In Utrecht. In Mexico. But that felt like surrendering. Like it was me I was really… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Saying goodbye is less fraught this time. They have done it now once, like normal people: leave, come back. It builds confidence.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“She's not my nurse but she comes up to Gran and Gramps just the same. "Don't you doubt for a second that… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival.… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make… — 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
