Gayle Forman
Gayle Forman
Gayle Formanis an American young-adult fiction author, best known for her novel If I Stay which topped the New York Times best sellers list of Young Adult Fiction and was made into a film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth5 June 1970
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
thinking differences knowing
Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.
travel breathing inspiring-travel
Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.
dream regret sleep
The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bad Whispers in my ear :"Better of Dead" Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret Kisses me gently when i wake up in a sweat "boo!
fate hands actors
I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.
keys ifs
Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.” “If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.
school romance forever
...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...
quitting easy leap
Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.” “Really? Was that how you quit me?
children choices trust-me
If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?
player men two
One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.
sweat smell scent
Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.
heart doctors airports
There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You’d better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security “bullet
forgiven understood ifs
And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.
if-i-stay hang-in-there
You just work through it. You just hang in there.
running fighting if-i-stay
I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.