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
falling-in-love believe one-day
Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.
one-day four twenties
It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam
miracle path
Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.
territory courageous
C'est courageux d'aller dans l'inconnu': It is courageous to go into territory unknown.
play people trying
You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.
girl mom school
Are you coming down with something?" Mom asks. And just for the tiniest of seconds, I wonder what would happen if I told them the truth. That school is nothing like I imagined it would be. That I'm not the girl in the catalog at all. I'm not a Happy College Student. I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.
thinking scared
It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.
thinking missing path
I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.
wind coffins good-intentions
(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
jail would-be losing
Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.
if-i-stay immortal
Love can make you immortal
angel doctors if-i-stay
If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me. All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It’s not up to the doctors. It’s not up to the absentee angels. It’s not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It’s up to me.
school years two
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 band on the rise - or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this -I was pretty sure it would've been.
realizing enough knows
I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.