Gayle Forman Quotes

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it.

How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog and sand Filtered and influenced by it, until no part Remains that is surely you.

Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

You happened to me,You scare me to death, you know. When you stormed into my life, you turned everything inside out. You upset all the things I believed about myself and made me think in new ways. I know who I used to be, but I’m finally ready to figure out who I am. Cynicism gets tiring, Isabel, and you’ve . . . rested me.And don’t you dare tell me you’ve stopped loving me back, because you’re still a better person than I am, and I’m counting on you to take more care with my heart than I took with yours.

I found myself again and then found love.

As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

I tried to be someone else, but nothing seemed to change. I know now, this is who I really am inside. I've finally found myself, fighting for a chance. I know now, this is who I really am.

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people's lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.