“We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”
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<b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>If I Stay</i></b><br> <br> Allyson Healey's life is exactly like her suitcase--packed, planned, ordered. Then on the last day of her three-week post-graduation European tour, she meets Willem. A free-spirited, roving actor, Willem is everything she's not, and when he invites her to abandon her plans and come to Paris with him, Allyson says yes. This uncharacteristic decision leads to a day of risk and romance, liberation and intimacy: 24 hours that will transform Allyson's life.<br> <br> A book about love, heartbreak, travel, identity, and the "accidents" of fate, <i>Just One Day</i> shows us how sometimes in order to get found, you first have to get lost. . . and how often the people we are seeking are much closer than we know.<br> The first in a sweepingly romantic duet of novels. Willem's story--<i>Just One Year</i>--is coming soon!
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Gayle Forman
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“We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”
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“Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”
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“And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my lif...”
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“You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.”
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“To be or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. I had to memorize the whole speech for sophomore English, and I can still rememb...”
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“You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.”
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“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.”
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“We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.”
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“But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”
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