15 Sad I Was Here Quotes and Tiny Book Review

I Was Here by Gayle Forman was published in 2015. I enjoyed the book at that time, and forget about it. 

I saw a I Was Here quote on the internet, and the memory of the book kicks in. I tried to search more I Was Here quotes, but I did not find anything of my liking, so I thought of making one myself.

Hope you like these I Was Here Quotes.

I Was Here Book Review

I Was Here by Gayle Forman is about a person whose best friend killed herself. The remaining one narrates the aftermath of the decision, and how it impacts and affect the lives of everyone related to the dead person.

It is a sad story. Cody is not a likable girl, but when Meg killed herself, we get to see how she also doesn’t like herself too.

Suicide is always sad, but for the one who does it, it may be the best thing happens to them after a long time. Remaining one could say million of things, but the point is that you cannot prevent it.

You cannot recognize it, even if your best friends, brother or any close person going through it. You get to know about how sad they were after they die, and you look into their life. There is no privacy to a dead person, and when those curtains fall, you see the mess.

And maybe, for a moment, you could rationalize their decisions. Cody went through Meg’s life to find out why she does it. Why she never see it happening and she really discovers some shocking truth.

Gayle Forman is a marvelous writer, and the way she handles the topic is astonishing.

I Was Here Quotes

And you will never know how it feels to light up the sky. You will never know how it feels to be a firefly.

Complicated and confused in a wholly fucked-up way is a good way to describe it. But maybe that’s just how love is.

I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.

I failed her in life. But I won’t fail her in death.

I know everyone wants to protect my innocence and stuff, but my sister swallowed poison. It’s kinda too late.

I see some people are crying. I made them cry. I’ve become toxic. Drink me and die.

“She’ll always carry that scar.”
“She will, only if you do.”

He must’ve known that it was me behind this, the sunless planet who turned out to have some light left in her after all.

I’m waging a tug of war, but no one else is holding the other end of the rope.

It’s an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die.

Anything that kills hope is a sin.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.

Sometimes you don’t even need to be in the same room for the damage to be done.

You’ll get through it. I know you seem like you won’t, but you will.

I don’t want to lose you because of the f**ked-up way I found you.

It’s funny how once you start pretending, you realize how much everyone else is too.

You had a pile of rocks, and you cleaned them up pretty and made a necklace. Meg got jewels, and she hung herself with them.

I Was Here Quotes

“She didn’t tell me that she found life to be so unbearably painful. I mean, I didn’t even have a clue.”

A kind of laugh escapes, and I know that if I’m not very careful, what follows will be something I don’t want to hear, that no one wants to hear.

How can you not know about your best friend? Even if she doesn’t tell you, how can you not know?

How can you believe someone to be beautiful and amazing and just about the most magical person you’ve ever known, when it turns out she was in such pain that she had to drink poison that robbed her cells of oxygen until her heart had no choice but to stop beating? So don’t ask me about Meg. Because I don’t know shit.

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