Trying Quotes by Gayle Forman

10 Trying quotes by Gayle Forman

If you’ve ever felt the pulse of a new challenge, Gayle Forman’s ten lines can speak to that restless energy. Her words balance youthful urgency with a hint of wistful realism, making this a handy spot to pause and reflect on the act of trying.

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

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

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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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...and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying…

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Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself…

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You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us.…

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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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Dear Willem: I’ve been trying to forget about you and our day in Paris for nine months now, but as you can…

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Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was…

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Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I…

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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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There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But…

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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”

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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. This whole night has been…

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“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…

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

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

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

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

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“Jazz je punk pro staré lidi.”

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

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

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