Bookish Mardi: Quotes from Just One Year by Gayle Forman
"You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being on love." - Gayle Forman
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Book / Series:
Just One Day #2
Just One Day #2
Original Title:
Just One Year
Just One Year
Author: Gayle Forman
Publisher: Speak
Publication Date:
October 10, 2013
October 10, 2013
First Publication:
Januray 01, 2013
Januray 01, 2013
Pages: 336
Format:
Trademark Paperback
Trademark Paperback
Source: Bought
Book Summary
Just One Day. Just One Year. Just One Read.
Before you find out how their story ends, remember how it began....
When he opens his eyes, Willem doesn’t know where in the world he is—Prague or Dubrovnik or back in Amsterdam. All he knows is that he is once again alone, and that he needs to find a girl named Lulu. They shared one magical day in Paris, and something about that day—that girl—makes Willem wonder if they aren’t fated to be together. He travels all over the world, from Mexico to India, hoping to reconnect with her. But as months go by and Lulu remains elusive, Willem starts to question if the hand of fate is as strong as he’d thought. . . .
The romantic, emotional companion to Just One Day, this is a story of the choices we make and the accidents that happen—and the happiness we can find when the two intersect. (Source: Goodreads)
"If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep." - Sebastian of Twelfth Night
"Accidents. It's all about accidents." - Willem
". . . a lone man with a one-way ticket is always an object of suspicion." - Willem
"I'm so conversant in every kind of small talk, but I find myself at a loss for words when it comes to my mother." - Willem
"It was the third time in twenty-four hours that I'd seen her when I walked into that train's cafe car, I remember feeling a jolt. As if the universe was saying: pay attention." - Willem
"The universe, I knew, loved nothing more that balance." - Willem
"I wonder, as I have so many times, how long it took her to think the worst of me when she already had thought the worst of me." - Willem
"Sexual activity releases serotonin, which increases feelings of well-being. It's simle science." - W
"I find myself wishing for the anonymity of the road, where you had no past and no future either, just that one moment in time. And if that moment happened to get sticky or uncomfortable, there was always a train departing to the next moment." - Willem
"I'm already paying the price, so I may as well do the crime." - Willem
"Time is so fluid." - Jacques
"There's a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other is truly a loss." - Willem
"So many girls. Why am I trying to find just one?" - Willem
"No matter what you is; only matter what you seem." - Jose
"It's the little details that tell the big stories." - Tor
". . . it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get." - Willem
". . . whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." - Kate
"Appearances can be quite deceiving, you know." - Kate
". . . you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not."- Kate
"Nothing happens when without intention." - Willem
"Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith." - Kate
" A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin." - Saba
". . .sometimes I think that guilt and bitterness may be Yael's and my true common language." - Willem
". . . all of life's questions can be solved through mathematical principle." - Willem
"Dare to dream. To dream is the ultimate dare." - Prateek
"Girls have always been the best distractions. Until a girl became the thing I needed distraction from." - Willem
"Misery loves company." - Jules
"It's a story we repeat because it's a history to see repeated." - The Seder
". . . something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy." - Willem
". . . performing is so much more than speaking limes. It's about communicating with our audience through every gesture, every word unsaid." - Willem
"Sometimes it's easier to be someone else." - Willem
"I'm always losing things, and then I find them again in the strangest places." - Daniel \
"I have nothing but time in my life, but never enough of it when I need it." - Willem
". . . sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself another one." - Willem
"Love is not something you protect. It's something you risk." - Willem
Just One Day. Just One Year. Just One Read.
Before you find out how their story ends, remember how it began....
When he opens his eyes, Willem doesn’t know where in the world he is—Prague or Dubrovnik or back in Amsterdam. All he knows is that he is once again alone, and that he needs to find a girl named Lulu. They shared one magical day in Paris, and something about that day—that girl—makes Willem wonder if they aren’t fated to be together. He travels all over the world, from Mexico to India, hoping to reconnect with her. But as months go by and Lulu remains elusive, Willem starts to question if the hand of fate is as strong as he’d thought. . . .
The romantic, emotional companion to Just One Day, this is a story of the choices we make and the accidents that happen—and the happiness we can find when the two intersect. (Source: Goodreads)
Remarkable Lines from the Book
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| "When at home, I was in better place; but travellers ,ust be content." - William Shakespeare's As You Like It |
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| "Some things are impossible to tear yourself away from." - Willem |
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| "Accident - how I found her. Accident - how I lost her. You have to give the universe credit, the way it even things out like that." - Willem |
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| "You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again." - Willem |
"If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep." - Sebastian of Twelfth Night
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| ". . . the universe operates on the same equilibrium, theory as markets. It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow." - Willem |
". . . a lone man with a one-way ticket is always an object of suspicion." - Willem
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| "Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting; sometimes it b;oes you away from those places, too." - Willem |
"It was the third time in twenty-four hours that I'd seen her when I walked into that train's cafe car, I remember feeling a jolt. As if the universe was saying: pay attention." - Willem
"The universe, I knew, loved nothing more that balance." - Willem
"I wonder, as I have so many times, how long it took her to think the worst of me when she already had thought the worst of me." - Willem
"Sexual activity releases serotonin, which increases feelings of well-being. It's simle science." - W
"I find myself wishing for the anonymity of the road, where you had no past and no future either, just that one moment in time. And if that moment happened to get sticky or uncomfortable, there was always a train departing to the next moment." - Willem
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| "So you're comparing love to a stain?" - Lulu |
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| ". . . all of life boils down to mathematics, that there's a numeric principal or algorithm to describe every event, even the random ones (chaos theory!)." - W |
"I'm already paying the price, so I may as well do the crime." - Willem
"Time is so fluid." - Jacques
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| Photo from Web |
"There's a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other is truly a loss." - Willem
"So many girls. Why am I trying to find just one?" - Willem
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| "I's flattered lots of girls, many who deserved it, many who didn't. Lulu deserved it, she deserved so much more flattery than being called an accident." - Willem |
"No matter what you is; only matter what you seem." - Jose
"It's the little details that tell the big stories." - Tor
". . . it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get." - Willem
". . . whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." - Kate
"Appearances can be quite deceiving, you know." - Kate
". . . you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not."- Kate
"Nothing happens when without intention." - Willem
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| "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. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you. . . you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portions." - Kate |
"Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith." - Kate
" A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin." - Saba
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| ". . . when life gets tenuous, something small might do it." - Yael |
". . .sometimes I think that guilt and bitterness may be Yael's and my true common language." - Willem
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| "What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." - Willem |
". . . all of life's questions can be solved through mathematical principle." - Willem
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| "When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium." - Willem |
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| "It always seemed the exact right way to describe how things felt with girls - that wind and exhilaration, the hurling, the wanting, the freefall. The abrupt end." - Willem |
"Dare to dream. To dream is the ultimate dare." - Prateek
"Girls have always been the best distractions. Until a girl became the thing I needed distraction from." - Willem
"Misery loves company." - Jules
"It's a story we repeat because it's a history to see repeated." - The Seder
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| "Choose something you feel? Be who you are, not who they want you to be. Go big or go home?" - Kate |
". . . something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy." - Willem
". . . performing is so much more than speaking limes. It's about communicating with our audience through every gesture, every word unsaid." - Willem
"Sometimes it's easier to be someone else." - Willem
"I'm always losing things, and then I find them again in the strangest places." - Daniel \
"I have nothing but time in my life, but never enough of it when I need it." - Willem
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| "Wouldn't you want to know? That in some little way, something random you did had such an impact on someone's life? What do they call that? The Butterfly effect?" - Marina |
". . . sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself another one." - Willem
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| "I'm not sure it's possible to simultaneously love something and keep it safe. Loving is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives." - Willem |
"Love is not something you protect. It's something you risk." - Willem
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| "Some things you don't know you want until they're gone. Other things you think want, but don't understand you already have them." - Willem |
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