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
teenager parent generations
Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations
years one-day hours
It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it". Willem
want suspects unwilling
Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.
life-is excuse intention
Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?
new-year years promise
he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.
balance okay meant-to-be
Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.
stupidity kind certain
It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.
settling increase harder
Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.
law withdrawal deposits
When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.
littles little-things sometimes
The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.
one-day goes-on fluid
Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely
funeral good-things said
It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.
years life-is if-i-stay
And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.
play want i-want-you
I want you to play me like a cello.