Gayle Forman Quotes

When you grow up believing you are what you do, when you're done, you aren't.

When you invest in something for so long and you stop and have nothing to fill that space, it can be more of a crisis of identity.

Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.

Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

I might never ride Corr again. I don't know who I am without him.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.

Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him?

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

Earthlings are confused, insecure. And some Earthlings have no heritage: that's what leads them to kill each other and rob 7-11 stores.

I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: 'What now? How to proceed?'

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

I'm not an educated woman. What am I gonna do for the rest of my life? I'm an athlete... And now I have absolutely nothing.

If I can't work, I don't know what to do with myself.

A lot of my self-worth is based on what I do. And if you take that away I just mope.

The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or a sailor without an ocean..." "Or a boy without a girl.

I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.

Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal. But what if the paths came to an end? One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents, husband, country, and love were gone - what was left to betray?

I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.

There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all.

It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.