Gayle Forman Quotes

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

I'm a silly little needy person sometimes, and I crouch in a room all alone and think of all the people that I wish were with me.

I always have doubts. I am weary of people.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head, and, like an egg, you allow yourself to topple onto your side, your legs still pulled hard against your torso. You lie like that a long while, watching the chrome shell of the tape measure sparkle until the sun moves.

I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. I suppose it's why you feel so far away from everyone, in the end; anything you can think of to tell them just ends up making them feel terrible.

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'

Everyone fears rejection.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

I feel like everybody's always out to get me, and that's a weird feeling.

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.

Lisa understands me. I'm very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I've been kind of shy - opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that.

Look, I know what it feels like to believe you're 'different' in a bad way.