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If I Stay

The critically acclaimed, bestselling novel from Gayle Forman, author of Where She Went, Just One Day, and Just One Year. Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Chloe Moretz! In the blink of an eye e

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Gayle Forman (20)Mia (2)

“It’s quiet now. So quiet that you can almost hear other people’s dreams.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Silence, Quiet Time, Hush, peace is for dreams

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Choices, Life

“Don't be scared... Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Women, Scared

“Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Dating, Heartbreak, Relationships

“Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Heartbreak, Love, Sadness

“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.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, Moving Forward, Breakups

“I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it’s out of your control.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Death Quotes, Life, Life Quotes, Control

“I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Life Quotes, Gayle Forman Quotes, Gayle Forman

“But the you who are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: If I Stay, Relationships, Love, Forever, Gayle Forman Quotes

“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.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationships Ending, Leaving, Going, Heartbreak

“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: breakup, Heartbreak, Relationship, Loss, Losing Love

“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: If I Stay, Relationships, Love, Loss, Gayle Forman Quotes

“And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: If I Stay, Gayle Forman, Gayle Forman 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 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'…”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Gayle Forman Quotes, Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Dying, Life Quotes, Gayle Forman, Gayle Forman Quotes

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: If I Stay, Gayle Forman, life choices, Gayle Forman Quotes

“Everyone thinks it was because of the snow.”

— Gayle Forman, Mia, amazon.com

Tagged: First Lines, first lines of books

“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Immortal

“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.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Fighting, Life, Dying, Living, Death

“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. But I'm also feeling all that I have in my life, which, includes what I have lost, as…”

— Gayle Forman, Mia, amazon.com

Tagged: Emotion, Feeling Emotion, Feeling Everything At Once, Drowning In Emotion, My Favorites