Gayle Forman

“Las mujeres van tras lo que quieren, los hombres terminan como los tontos.”

“Dijiste que me odiabas.- Lo sé. Necesitaba alguien a quien odiar, y eres al que más amo, por lo que eso cayó sobre ti.”

“Mia ¿No lo entiendes? La música es el vacío y tú eres la razón de eso”

“Un día podría ser sólo de veinticuatro horas, pero aveces sobrevivir a través de uno solo parece tan imposible como escalar el Everest”

“If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.”

“As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about feeling like a place acknowledged you, winked at you, accepted you. It's strange because, of all the people in all the cities, I'd have thought that to Parisians I'd be invisible, but apparently I'm not. Apparently in Paris, not only can I skate, but I practically qualify for the Olympics!”

“But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”

“What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetimeIt's whistling past my ear”

“blah blah”

“The weather turned cool a few weeks later, and that winter was when Mia had her accident. So that actually turned out to be the last time I went camping. But even if it weren’t, I still think it would be the best trip of my life. Whenever I remember it, I just picture our tent, a little ship glowing in the night, the sounds of Mia’s and my whispers escaping like musical notes, floating out on a moonlit sea.”

“Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.”

“We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”

“No hay nada que perder. O tal vez ya lo he perdido, y encontrado, y cualquier otra cosa que puede que pierda, no tiene nada que ver con lo que está en este momento.”

“...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then someone came along and showed me there was a door in the room. One that I'd never even seen before. Then he opened it for me. Held my hand as I walked through it. And for one perfect day, I was on the other side. I was somewhere else. Someone else. And then he was gone, and I was thrown back into my little room. And now, no matter what I do, I can't seem to find that door.”

“We were all forged in the crucible.”

“Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.”

“Even if you find him. Even if he didn't leave you on purpose, he can't possibly live up to the person you've built him into."It's not like the thought hasn't occurred to me. I get that the chances of finding him are small, but the chances of finding him as I remember him are even smaller. But I just keep going back to what my dad always says, about how when you lose something, you have to visualize the last place you had it. And I found―and then lost―so many things in Paris.”

“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.”

“I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.”

“I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.”

“But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away.He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”

“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.”

“You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.”

“He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. "I'll keep you up here." He taps his temple. "Where you can't get lost.”

“And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.”

“He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.”

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

“Mia,” Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. “You’re starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?”

“So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.”

“What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”

“If music be the food of love, play on”

“When the sun shines, you let it shine on you”

“You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love”

“Why get stained when getting dirty is so much more fun”

“He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be”

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

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

“I recognized that the kiss was a door I had walked through.”

“It’s quiet now. So quiet that you can almost hear other people’s dreams.”

“I don’t know exactly what’s happened to me, and for the first time today, I don’t really care. I shouldn’t have to care. I shouldn’t have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”

“Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.”

“If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me.All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It’s not up to the doctors. It’s not up to the absentee angels. It’s not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It’s up to me.”

“When I was little, I used to go to the local ice-skating rink. In my mind, I always felt like I could twirl and jump, but when I got out onto the ice, I could barely keep my blades straight. When I got older, that's how it was with people: In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite. Even with Evan, my boyfriend for junior and most of senior year, I never quite managed to be that skating, twirling, leaping person I suspected I could be. But today, apparently, I can skate.”

“Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.”

“Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”

“Aplaudo hasta que mis manos arden. Aplaudo como si haciéndolo pudiera alargar la noche, como si pudiera transformar la Noche de Reyes en una noche de veinticuatro horas. Aplaudo para poder aferrarme a este sentimiento. Aplaudo porque sé lo que sucederá cuando me detenga. Es lo mismo que pasa cuando apago una muy buena película —una en la que me he sumergido— que es ser lanzada de regreso a mi propia realidad y un vacío se instalará en mi pecho. Algunas veces, miraré una película una y otra vez para recuperar esa sensación de estar dentro de algo real. Lo cual, lo sé, no tiene sentido.”

“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”

“It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam”

“Petite, je n'ai jamais eu conscience d'être soutenue, car j'ignorais l'impression que cela faisait de ne pas l'être.”

“— Eh oui, elle s'est baptisée "V" comme vétéran, a lancé Babe avec un petit rire.— Non, c'est "V" comme Virginia, comme Victoire, et comme Va te faire foutre.”