Quotes From "Just One Year" By Gayle Forman

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk. Gayle Forman

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

I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me. Gayle Forman

One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one Gayle Forman

...he starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines. Gayle Forman

My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself. Gayle Forman

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

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..." she trails off. Gayle Forman

It was like finding out the world was made of gossamer and could be so easily ripped apart. To be solely at the mercy of fate. Gayle Forman

Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was. Gayle Forman

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

If you could know going in that twenty-five years of love would break you in the end, would you risk it? Because isn’t it inevitable? 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

And just in general, I'm better. Better than I've been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn't break my hear. But I'm beginning to wonder if in some roundabout way, she fixed it. Gayle Forman

Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith. Gayle Forman

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

...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