Gayle Forman Quotes

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

I see too deep and too much.

If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

I'm sensitive to the things I see.

Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

How can one know anything at all about people?

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.