...he starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines.

— Gayle Forman

How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?

— Gayle Forman

I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a perfect movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.

— Gayle Forman

I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It’s the same thing that happens when I turn off a perfect movie - one that I’ve lost myself to - which is that I’ll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest.

— Gayle Forman

I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

— Gayle Forman

I do have a point to all this,” she continues. “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 the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. “You still have a family,” she whispers.

— Gayle Forman

I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia

— Gayle Forman

I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. Furthermore, I shouldn't have to work this hard. Furthermore, I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

— Gayle Forman

I don't want to lose you because of the f**keep way I found you.

— Gayle Forman

I'd wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that

— Gayle Forman