Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.

— Gayle Forman

Fake it 'till you make it.

— Gayle Forman

Firefly, it is an act of bravery to feel your feelings. Oh, Meg would've loved that. It's an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die.

— Gayle Forman

Forgiveness: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.

— Gayle Forman

For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

— Gayle Forman

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

— Gayle Forman

Funnily, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine. Because even though he had blue hair and tattoos and wore leather jackets and worked in a record store, he wanted to marry Mom back at a time when the rest of their friends were still having drunken one-night stands. "Girlfriend is such a stupid word," he said. "I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her "wife"'.

— Gayle Forman

Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obs curation. Red flowers dot the land in the breeze's chase while the land colored up in red after the kiss.

— Gayle Forman

He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time.

— Gayle Forman

He looks at me and then, reverting to the voice he'd used with Kendra, says, 'If homegirls want to see me as ghetto trash'--he stops and switches to his lisp, sassy voice--'or big-ass queer'--now he switches to his deepest Shakespeare voice--'I shall not take it upon myself to disabuse them.

— Gayle Forman