Gayle Quotes & Sayings

My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo. — Helene D. Gayle

She wanted us to go on like nothing had ever happened between us. Like she didn't have her hand circled around my heart. Like she wasn't squeezing the life out of it every time she left." ~ Jamie — Catherine Gayle

I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager. — Gayle Forman

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. — Gayle Forman

It was one of those simple facts of life: the sky was blue, gravity kept our feet firmly on the ground, and I loved Katie Weber." ~ Jamie — Catherine Gayle

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own. — Helene D. Gayle

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members. — Helene D. Gayle

I never trusted the women i was involved with to tell the truth,because the truth never changes,but as i knew so well,people did.I knew it wasn't everyone,some women did have staying power,but it was impossible to tell which ones they were.Women should have come labelled-it would have made life so much simpler. — Mike Gayle

I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right. — Gayle King

You think the whole thing was an act? Was a fake?" I shake my head ... "I daresay it was real in the moment," she says, measuring her words. "But men are different than women. Their emotions are capricious. — Gayle Forman

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement Stitch, — Gayle Forman

Not sure there is such a thing as a minor miracle. — Gayle Forman

The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that. — Gayle King

Unlock hidden memories. Some trauma is just too much for the conscious mind to handle and you have to go in through a back door to access it. So I reluctantly submitted to a few sessions. It wasn't what I thought it would be. No swinging amulet, no metronome. It was more like those guided imagery exercises they'd sometimes have us do at camp. — Gayle Forman

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself. — Gayle Forman

Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from? — Gayle Forman

By that point, it'll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it's too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital.
But even so, I've kept looking.
I'm still looking. — Gayle Forman

Did you like it? Juilliard?" I ask. "Was it everything you thought it'd be?"
"No," she says, and again, I feel this strange sense of victory. Until she elaborates. "It was more."
"Oh. — Gayle Forman

The difference between our love and the love you have for her is like the difference between knowing something in your head and knowing something in your heart. In your head, you think you love me because we see the world the same way, we feel the same things - in a way we're almost like twins - but what you and her have is much more special because it's not about what you have in common, it's about the way she makes you feel in your heart. And the heart wins every time. — Mike Gayle

I wish there was something where you could blink an eye and be somewhere. I'm a very nervous flier. I wish we could get from point A to point B instantly. — Gayle King

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

A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest. — Gayle Forman

In the lead-up to the launch of my new book I Was Here, I've seen a lot of discussion about depression and suicide and mental health and YA dealing with such intense matters. What I haven't seen discussed is kittens. — Gayle Forman

(P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins. — Gayle Forman

It is a torturously laboured ride home like this. Allyson is desperate for it to end and would like for it to go on forever.
Willem is just desperate for it to end. He is so full of wanting that it is painful and Allyson keeps lifting his shirt and licking his back, which she shouldn't do while he's riding a bike because he might pass out (But she shouldn't stop, either.) — Gayle Forman

Look realistically at espionage thrillers again. They're not only alive, readers are excited about them. — Gayle Lynds

:That's what you do when you love someone." ... "You give all you have to give," he said, "and they do the same. You fill each other up." ... "It doesn't work if it isn't even, though," I said. "If one does all the giving and the other does all the taking — Catherine Gayle

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

The rain keeps up throughout the next day. "Lovely English summer we're having," everyone jokes. — Gayle Forman

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

I'll go where you go.
A simple statement that feels like a blanket. — Gayle Forman

I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too. — Gayle Forman

Days like these go on for years. It's the ones you want to last that slip away - one, two, three - in seconds. — Gayle Forman

In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite. — Gayle Forman

The doctors keep coming around and pulling up my eyelids and waving around a flashlight. They are rough and hurried, like they don't consider eyelids worthy of gentleness. It makes you realize how little in life we touch one another's eyes. Maybe your parents will hold an eyelid up to get out a piece of dirt, or maybe your boyfriend will kiss your eyelids, light as a butterfly, just before you drift off to sleep. But eyelids are not like elbows or knees or shoulders, parts of the body accustomed to being jostled. — Gayle Forman

John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time? — Gayle Forman

Many confuse the United States with the Church or the Constitution with the Bible. They feel that the good of the United States is the same as the good of the Kingdom of God. Some feel that the Constitution of the United States is as infallible as the Bible. However, one with wisdom notice that some things are Kingdom principles and some are not. — Gayle D. Erwin

Life is this big, fat, gigantic stinking mess. That's fhe beauty of it too. — Gayle Forman

About never knowing your life is changing until it's already happened — Gayle Forman

I love you enough to keep you from dying with me... ~ Dane de Falaise — Gayle Mullen Pace

It's like you're averse to adventure. — Gayle Forman

When I'd looked back up at the window, the white curtain flapping in the gusty breeze, I'd felt both sadness and relief, the oppositional tug of heaviness and lightness, one lifting me up, one pushing me down. I understood then, Lulu and I had started something, something I'd always wanted, but also something I was scared of getting. Something ai wanted more of. And, also, something I wanted to get away from. The truth and its opposite. — Gayle Forman

It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not. — Gayle Forman

There is a world of difference, Lulu, between falling in love and being in love. — Gayle Forman

It would've been easier to die. It's not that I want to be dead now. I don't. I have a lot in my life that I get satisfaction from, that I love. But some days, especially in the beginning, it was so hard. And I couldn't help but think that it would've been so much simpler to go with the rest of them. But you - you asked me to stay. You begged me to stay. You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. — Gayle Forman

I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere. — Gayle Forman

Brave young women complete heroic acts everyday, with no one bearing witness. This was a chance to even the ledger, to share one small story the made the difference between starvation and survival for the families whose lives it changed. I wanted to pull the curtain back for readers on a place foreigners know more for its rocket attacks and roadside bombs than its countless quiet feats of courage. And to introduce them to the young women like Kamila Sidiqi who will go on. No matter what. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

There's a piece of lead where my heart should beat
Doctor said too dangerous to take out
You'd better just leave it be
Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be
Now, if only I could get through airport security
bullet — Gayle Forman

It's like my ear attunes to the weird language and I'm sucked fully into the story, the same way I am when I watch a movie, so that I feel it. — Gayle Forman

Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy."
"Really? Was that how you quit me? — Gayle Forman

And, I believe that one of the most loving things you can do is prepare a meal for someone you love. None of which I know how to do! — Gayle King

And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy. — Gayle Forman

Almost don't matter. You got to deal with the situation at hand. — Gayle Forman

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny. — Gayle Lynds

I didn't even start college until I was 21. — Gayle Forman

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay. — Gayle Forman

Please Mia, don't make me write a song ... - Adam Wilde, If I Stay — Gayle Forman

Wish that there was someone I could explain this to. Someone who might understand what I'm feeling. And for one small second, I do imagine the person I could talk to, about finding this door, and losing it. He would understand. But that's one door that needs to stay shut. — Gayle Forman

All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?' — Gayle King

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. — Gayle Forman

There's a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself. — Gayle Forman

I do have a point to all this," she continues. "There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family." She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. "You still have a family," she whispers. — Gayle Forman

Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me. — Sami Gayle

What would you do if you had to choose? — Gayle Forman

Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others. — Gayle Forman

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

Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them. — Gayle Rubin

this was exactly what he did: became a turtle, all hard shell. It was the perfect protection, the perfect weapon. She lost every time. She understood that — Gayle Forman

The you you are now is the same you I was in love yesterday, the same you I will be in love tomorrow. — Gayle Forman

Another missed connection. Story of my life these days — Gayle Forman

(The sight of her bare feet. What this is doing to Willem's blood pressure. She might as well have taken off all her clothes.) — Gayle Forman

Go back to your ghost, I hear Bryn telling me. But she has it wrong. Bryn is the one who's been living with the ghost-the specter of a man who never stopped loving someone else. — Gayle Forman

Verily, my life is falling apart and there's not a damn thing Ican do about it. — Mike Gayle

She had this uncanny sense of seeing things the way they were instead of the way you'd want them to be, of knowing me better than I knew myself. She could sniff out the truth even if it hurt. — Mike Gayle

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one. — Gayle Forman

And suddenly I just need to hold his hand more than I've ever needed anything in this world. — Gayle Forman

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty. — Helene D. Gayle

Isn't amazing how life is one thing and then becomes something else? — Gayle Forman

He sort of breathes music. — Gayle Forman

So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree. — Gayle King

I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears. — Gayle Forman

Our seats were in the balcony. Nosebleeds. But you don't go to Yo-Yo Ma for the view, and the sound was incredible. That man has a way of making the cello sound like a crying woman one minute, a laughing child the next. Listening to him, I'm always reminded of why I started playing cell in the first place
that there is something so human and expressive about it. — Gayle Forman

When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I'd lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies. — Gayle King

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music. — Gayle Forman

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text? — Gayle King

I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic. — Gayle Forman

When the sun shines, you let it shine on you — Gayle Forman

Everyone takes a turn, and when it gets to me, I shout out what Jewish people say at times like this: "L'chaim!"

"It means 'to life,'" I explain. And as I say it, I think that maybe this is what I was saying a prayer for back in the cathedral. To life. — 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

I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it. — Mike Gayle

You're going to want me, Simon, as much as I want you...and before you can have me...you're going to have to deserve me. — Gayle Eden

Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack. — Gayle Forman

I think I'm a little wigged out that I've been more intimate with your dad than I have with you. — Gayle Forman

She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Byrn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. — Gayle Forman

Sometimes I really feel sorry for Mel - Her life would've been so much better if she'd fallen in love with someone normal. Instead she fell in love with me and had been paying for the mistake ever since. — Mike Gayle

A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives. — Gayle Forman

I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her. — Gayle King

The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue
Sent to the factory, just like me and like you
So how come they stayed your execution?
The audience roars its standing ovation
Dust, — Gayle Forman