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

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

— Gayle Forman

Why wasn't I nicer to Alice? When she has been nothing but sweet to me? When I actually like her? I know I should say something to her, but before I can find the words, she's tooting her horn and disappearing down the street. I wave until she turns the corner. And as I watch another person drive out of here to some better place, I understand exactly why I wasn't nicer.

— Gayle Forman

Willem laughs again. The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me.

— Gayle Forman

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

— Gayle Forman

You must not waste your one day here. When the sun shines, you let it shine on you. Snow is always waiting.

— Gayle Forman

You never know what will last." He said that earlier, about accidents, about never knowing which one is just a kink in the road and which one is a fork, about never knowing your life is changing until it's already happened." I think sometimes you do know," I say, my voice filling with emotion.

— Gayle Forman

You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

— Gayle Forman