Gayle Forman, Just One Day

Gayle Forman, Just One Day

"Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back."
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"Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"I wasn't in danger today," I tell him in a choked voice. "I escaped danger today." And I did... I feel like the whole day has been an electrical shock, paddles straight to my heart, bringing me out of a lifelong torpor I hadn't even known I was in. "I escaped," I repeat."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"...no way through it but through it," I tell myself."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"To be, or not to be: that is the question. That’s from Hamlet’s - maybe Shakespeare’s - most famous soliloquy. […] 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?"
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"I've hardly taken any pictures on this trip. Melanie teased me about it, to which I always said I preferred to experience something rather than obsessively record it. Though, really, the truth of it was, unlike Melanie (who wanted to remember the shoe salesman and the mime and the cute waiter and all the other people on the tour), none of that really mattered to me. At the start of the trip, I took shots of the sights. The Colosseum. Belvedere Palace. Mozart Square. But I stopped. They never came out very well, and you could get postcards of these things. But there are no postcards of this. Of life."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"He looks at me and then, reverting to the voice he'd used with Kendra, says, 'If homegirls wanna see me as ghetto trash'--he stops and switches to his lispy, 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, Just One Day
"You must not waste your one day here. When the sun shines, you let it shine on you. Snow is always waiting."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"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, Just One Day
"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, Just One Day
"Don't worry, I plan on living a long time."Why are you making a bucket list, then"Because if you wait until you're really dying, it's too late."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we always let go. But after we bobbed to the surface, we'd climb out of the pool, clamber up the high-dive ladder, clasp hands, and do it again. We're swimming separately now. I get that. Maybe it's just what you have to do to keep above water. But who knows? Maybe one day, we'll climb out, grab hands, and jumo again."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"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."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"I'll keep you here.' He taps his temple. 'Where you can't get lost."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"It's like you're averse to adventure."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day."
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
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