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Gayle Forman Quotes: 34

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
If I Stay
I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.
If I Stay
If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.
If I Stay
Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal
If I Stay
I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.
If I Stay
Please Mia,"he implores. "Don't make me write a song.
If I Stay
Fake it 'till you make it.
If I Stay
I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.
If I Stay
But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.
Where She Went
Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.
If I Stay
There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.
Where She Went
She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.
If I Stay
Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
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 life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.
Just One Day
But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.
If I Stay
Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.
If I Stay
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.
Just One Day
In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
Where She Went
It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome.
Where She Went
You dumb-ass,"I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me.
Where She Went
Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.
Just One Day
Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.
Just One Year
Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.
If I Stay
Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
Where She Went
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?
Just One Day
And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.
If I Stay
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.
Just One Day
So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.
Where She Went
Accidents. It's all about the accidents.
Just One Year
I do have a point to all this,” she continues. “There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we’re all your family.” She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. “You still have a family,” she whispers.
If I Stay
I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.
If I Stay
Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind.
If I Stay
It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.
My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.
If I Stay