“There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Accidents. It's all about the accidents.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.”
“If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it". Willem”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital.
But even so, I’ve kept looking.
I’m still looking.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for almost three years, I managed not to miss any of them. And then I spent that one day with that one girl. One day ... It was like she gave me her whole self, and somehow as a result, I gave her more of myself than I even realized there was to give. But then she was gone. And only after I'd been filled up by her, by that day, did I understand how empty I really was.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Somethings you don't know you want until they're gone. Other things you think want, but don't understand you already have them.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“Days like these go on for years. It's the ones you want to last that slip away - one, two, three - in seconds.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
“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 double happiness and we were arguing over the meaning. She’d thought it meant the luck of the boy getting the job and the girl. But I’d disagreed. It was the couplet fitting together, the two halves finding each other. It was love.
But maybe we were both wrong, and both right. It’s not either or, not luck or love. Not fate or will.
Maybe for double happiness, you need both.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
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“Leah: 'How do I get him to come home?'
Sam: 'Get a new personality and learn to shut the fuck up.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“As they clean the walls with wet cloths and sponges, they uncover the earlier paints, most prevalent a stark blue that must have been inspired by Mary's blue robes. Renaissance painters could get that rare color only from ground lapis lazuli brought from quarries in what is now Afghanistan.”
― Frances Mayes, quote from Under the Tuscan Sun
“I deal in lead! Roland called, and Eddie felt goose-bumps pebble his arms.”
― Stephen King, quote from Song of Susannah
“When leaving the ground, our ears were assaulted by language that you wouldn’t normally hear on a building site. In fact, most people in construction wouldn’t normally swear in public or in front of children. It appeared to me that the men in their twenties using these words were doing so on purpose, perhaps to make themselves appear ‘hard’ amongst other Millwall supporters, or to intimidate the opposition. But looking at them, they were pigeon chested and weak armed, and I suspected their use of foul language was intended to boost their stature to compensate for their lack of physical strength”
― Karl Wiggins, quote from Calico Jack in your Garden
“...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from The Girl Who Chased the Moon
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