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Where She Went

The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed If I Stay Picking up several years after the dramatic conclusion of If I Stay, Where She Went continues the story of Adam an

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“I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Hate You, Hate And Love, Relationships, Understand, Acceptance

“I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: goodbye, Endings, Relationships Ending, Loss, Heartbreak

“My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Where She Went, Love, True Love, Relationships, first kiss

“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.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Where She Went, normal, Life, Alone, Isolated

“Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a…”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationship Goals, Relationships, Forever

“I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Apology, Sorry, Relationships Ending, Where She Went

“I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close. Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Where She Went, Relationships, Kissing, Gayle Forman

“A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Where She Went, Relationships, Tough Days, Tough Life

“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, goodbye, Relationships Ending

“But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Where She Went, Gayle Forman Quotes, Gayle Forman, Without You

“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Where She Went, Gayle Forman Quotes, Gayle Forman, Love, Hate And Love

“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Loss, Breakups, Loss And Love

“Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through.”

— Gayle Forman, Adam, amazon.com

Tagged: First Lines, first lines of books, Getting Through, strength, Resilience

“There is't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.”

— Gayle Forman, Adam, amazon.com

Tagged: Intimacy, Love, Magnetism

“I run my finger along her neck, her jawline, and then cup her chin in my hand. And stop. We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together.”

— Gayle Forman, Adam, amazon.com

Tagged: Intimacy, Love, Magnetism

“Our skins reach outward, like magnets, long deprived of their opposite charge”

— Gayle Forman, Adam, amazon.com

Tagged: Intimacy, Love, Magnetism