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
feelings absence calculus
In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
real what-if asking
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?
life moving-on letting-go
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.
mean together target
Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.
dream sleep naps
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.
dying care realizing
I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.
might different if-i-stay
Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.
new-york talking going-away
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.
falling-in-love fall inconvenient
But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.
love world want
I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.
girlfriend stupid wife
Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her 'wife.
ifs
What would you do if you had to choose?
cacophony tough sometimes
All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.
trying busy you-left-me
You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.