Gayle Forman, If I Stay

Quotes

• “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...”
• “I do have a point to all this,” she continues. “There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of the...”
• “Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people tal...”
• “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...”
• “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...”
• “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 ...”
• “My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some poi...”
• “Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t...”
• “I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels lik...”
• “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...”
• “Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”
• “She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.”
• “Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.”
• “I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”
• “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
• “Please Mia,"he implores. "Don't make me write a song.”
• “I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
• “Fake it 'till you make it.”