Gayle Forman Quotes

Eternity bids thee to forget.

You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.

You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.

I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.

Eternity forbids thee to forget.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

Eternity is a ham and two people.

To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you'll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold only have an incomplete half of it, and that it won't ever really exist as a whole until you're together, talking or thinking about that moment ...that's worth more than one plus one. It's worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can't even imagine it.

If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would love her differently.

With thee conversing I forget all time.

With time, people forget to say, "Darling I love you." just that word.

We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.

This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didn’t want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself.

I'm searching for a real love.

I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.

If I use the word romance, whether it's my wife or not, it does not mean sex. We can use the word sex when sex is there.

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.