We Are Inevitable
Gayle Forman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When you watch, you are a spectator, but when you read, you’re a participant.”
“Twenty-six letters and some punctuation marks and you have infinite words in infinite worlds. How is that not a miracle?”
“In destroying ourselves, we also learn to create ourselves.”
“I continue reading, remembering why I used to love books. Because they show us, in so many words, and so many worlds, that we are not alone.”
“Knowing that something bad is going to happen, whether you want it to or not, to the point that you just want it to happen so you can stop dreading it.”
“Because the hard part of falling down is not the falling down, or the getting back up. It’s seeing what happens to the people you fall on. You get bruised; they get flattened.”
“Unfortunately, sometimes the things we love can also kill us.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I read the opening lines of the book, and it’s like my own pages are coming unstuck. For so long, all I’ve felt is fear, and all this time, it was grief. I continue reading, remembering why I used to love books. Because they show us, in so many words, and so many worlds, that we are not alone. A miracle, in twenty-six letters.”
“You’re an unreliable narrator, you know that?’ ‘Is that like the guy who narrates the telenovela on Jane the Virgin?’ ‘It’s when the person telling you the story is maybe not telling you the entire truth. Sometimes it’s because they can’t see it themselves. But other times it’s because they are trying to deceive you.”
“Like she’s singing away her grief, because words are not sufficient. Mom, singing me to sleep. Hannah, singing to tell a story. Bev, singing away her panic attacks.”
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Book Keywords:
reading, not-alone, fear, inevitable, books, grief
