We Are Inevitable Quotes

“When you watch, you are a spectator, but when you read, you’re a participant.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Twenty-six letters and some punctuation marks and you have infinite words in infinite worlds. How is that not a miracle?”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“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.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“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.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“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.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“In destroying ourselves, we also learn to create ourselves.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“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.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Are all movies books first?” “Just the best ones.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“They evolved into birds.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Unfortunately, sometimes the things we love can also kill us.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Maybe we are all inevitable.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“You’ve got me believing in a great good place.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“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.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“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.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Like us,” I repeat. “Are the answers to all life’s questions in books?”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Well, you’re always talking about the dinosaurs being extinct. Did they know? How did they feel? Blah blah blah. But they’re not really extinct.
Because right at the end, he talks about the new breed of flying dinosaurs. They were smaller, bat-sized, able to fly, so when the asteroid hit, these new guys were somehow able to survive. And eventually...
They evolved.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“I look at this man, who doesn't know me, or anything about me, but who knows, like Ira always knew, like all the best booksellers know, not just what their costumers want, but what they need.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Ira may be the Giving Tree, but the boy with the ax who chops him down, branch by branch - that’s me.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“I mean, does anybody read anymore?”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Are all the answers to life's questions in books?"

"Of course," he says. "That's what makes them miracles.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Suddenly, I see it. A flaming piece of rock hurtling through the atmosphere.
Oh my god. I’m the fucking asteroid.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Arron Stein, you’re the most unreliable narrator I’ve ever met.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable