Gayle Forman Quotes

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

Most experiences provoke a transformation in you. So, when you live something, live it fully because you never know when this is going to happen again and not only that, if it even happens again, it will not have the same impact.

Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless.

If you could live in the moment, you would see the flavor of eternity and when you metabolize the experience of eternity, your body doesn't age.

The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprintit’s no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what’s big and what’s little, what matters and what to put aside.

Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

All we have is the story we tell.

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am that I am. The girl is who she is. Some of her isness spills over and impregnates the entire universe. Objects and events cease to be mere representations of classes and become their own uniqueness; cease to be illustrations of verbal abstractions and become fully concrete. Then you stop being in love, and the universe collapses, with an almost audible squeak of derision, into its normal insignificance.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.