Gayle Forman

“Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.”

“I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.”

“Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.”

“Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.”

“Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.”

“We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.”

“I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.”

“Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.”

“It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.”

“Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.”

“Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was.”

“It takes a certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise.”

“As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.”

“In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.”

“Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”

“There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family. She stops now. Leans over me so that wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead.You still have a family, she whispers.”

“You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)”

“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”

“I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'”

“But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.”