I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Year

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Day

Sometimes the best way to find out what you're supposed to do is by doing the thing you're not supposed to do.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Day

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Year

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

—Joseph Brodsky

Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

—Phyllis Diller

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

—Lucius Annaeus Seneca