Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

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

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

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

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

The absence of the dead… is their way of appearing.

—Simone Weil

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

—Thomas Fuller

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

—Emily Dickinson

Never find fault with the absent.

—Alexander Pope