Gayle Forman

even though I think that Mia and I have enough secrets between the two of us at this point

Quitting__ not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.___eally? Was that how you quit me?_ And just like that, without thinking, without saying it in my head first, without arguing with myself for days, it__ out there.__o,_ she says, as if speaking to an audience under the bridge. __e finally says it.

Accidents. It's all about the accidents.

Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obscuration. Red flowers dot the land in the breeze's chase while the land colored up in red after the kiss.

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

That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.

To be, or not to be: that is the question. That__ from Hamlet__ - maybe Shakespeare__ - 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?

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.

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

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.

Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.

Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal

Cinders, I would've thought you of all people would know better. There are no wicked stepmothers and there are no fairy godmothers, and there are no Prince Charmings. There in no preordained destiny. You get to decide that. You decide your destiny. - V

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

Look I accept Adam because you love him. And I assume he accepts me because you love me...your love binds us.'...The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim's notion that they were somehow bound together through me- until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor.

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.

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.

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.