{"author":"Gayle Forman","author_id":"Gayle+Forman","total_quotes":150,"quotes":[{"text":"A journey of 1,000 miles starts with just 10 digits.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["journey","love"],"id":1899,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"Samo mislim da su sprovodi vrlo slični smrti. Možeš imati želje I planove, ali na kraju ipak nemaš kontrolu ni nad čim.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["death"],"id":2544,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me.All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It’s not up to the doctors. It’s not up to the absentee angels. It’s not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It’s up to me.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["fantastic","young-adult-fiction"],"id":3999,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["fate"],"id":5892,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"But then one time, you track down an email address and you're near a computer with Internet access so you don't have that nice cushion and you type what you're feeling and press send before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it. And then you wait, and wait, and wait, and nothing comes back, so all those things you thought were so important to say, really, they weren't. They weren't worth saying at all.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["depression","gayle-forman","i-was-here","suicide","writing"],"id":6231,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["change","coming-of-age","life","love","one-day","romance","thoughts","travel"],"id":6419,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["choices","family","life-and-death","love","tragic"],"id":6603,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"Every fiction has its base in fact.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["fiction","inspirational","life-lesson"],"id":8211,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"He looks at me and then, reverting to the voice he'd used with Kendra, says, 'If homegirls wanna see me as ghetto trash'--he stops and switches to his lispy, sassy voice--'or big-ass queer'--now he switches to his deepest Shakespeare voice--'I shall not take it upon myself to disabuse them.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["first-impressions","judgement"],"id":12810,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["love","teen","teen-romance","truth","young-love"],"id":14273,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":150,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}