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Time Quotes by Gayle Forman

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A night that feels like a mistake shows how the future can seem already written. The speaker worries that losing a loved one would be devastating, and urges themselves to stop avoiding the inevitable. The quotes also note how teenage love can feel both urgent and awkward.

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

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“Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.”

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But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

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

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Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely

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You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.

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

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“I WANT TO CUT THROUGH THE SPACE THAT SEPERATES US.”

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

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He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. "I'll keep you up here." He…

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“You guys seemed, still seem, in love, truly, deeply.” She sighed. “But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.”

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

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“kind of couple to talk about the future, about where our relationship was going, but with things suddenly”

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It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough.…

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“She's running the show. Maybe she's just biding her time. So you talk to her. You tell her to take all the…

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“People called Mom that a lot, probably because she had a hard time holding her tongue and could be brutally blunt when…

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“When we got back home, Gramps dropped me off and enveloped me in a hug. Normally, he was a handshaker, maybe a…

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“During all the time we were together, I don’t think I ever found out. But once I was with her, I didn’t…

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I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.…

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And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make…

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But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand…

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“I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival.…

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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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“But then one time, you track down an email address and you're near a computer with Internet access so you don't have…

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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…

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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…

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“I’ve given up on Lulu before. In Utrecht. In Mexico. But that felt like surrendering. Like it was me I was really…

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I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always…

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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…

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“She's not my nurse but she comes up to Gran and Gramps just the same. "Don't you doubt for a second that…

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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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“Time has a weight to it, and right now I can feel it heavy over me.”

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“But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.”

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“Next time I get sick, you can tell that to me. You can be my girl in the mountains." "Okay", I say."I'll…

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“Saying goodbye is less fraught this time. They have done it now once, like normal people: leave, come back. It builds confidence.”

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I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival.…

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“I'm so tired of avoiding the unavoidable, because I feel like I've been disappointing her for such a long time.”

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“you think the whole thing was an act? Was a fake?" I shake my head... "I daresay it was real in the…

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Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his…

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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.”