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
moving not-sure
Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?
hands freezing
Her hands were freezing, just like they always were, so I warmed them, just like I always did.
thinking vacation birds-chirping
Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure. It’s no big dramatic before-after. It’s more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times.
want persons
I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.
ocean world bigger
But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.
car traffic adrenaline
I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.
people leaving complicated
Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth
one-day anything-can-happen happens
Anything can happen in one day.
next temporary accidents
It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.
wall tired effort
Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I tried to take it down, but it took so much effort to even make cracks. And then I got tired of trying. Then I justified it. This was just how adult relationships were, how love felt once you had a few battle scars.
real feelings good-movie
It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.
empty-rooms gloves safe
I'll be your mess,you be mine That was the deal that we had signed I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste Gas masks,gloves,to keep us safe But now i'm alone in an empty room Staring down immaculate doom "Messy
waiting firsts rejects
First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate
silence needs dover
Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush