“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
―
Gayle Forman,
If I Stay
“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“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.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.” ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went
“You don’t share me. You own me.” ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went
“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“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.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.” ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went
“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.” ― Gayle Forman, Just One Day
“It's okay,' he tells me. 'If you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.' His voice cracks with emotion. He stops, clears his throat, takes a breath, and continues. 'But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So 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.'For the first time since I realized that Teddy was gone, too, I feel something unclench. I feel myself breathe. I know that Gramps can't be that late-inning pinch hitter I'd hoped for. He won't unplug my breathing tube or overdoes me with morphine or anything like that. But this is the first time today that anyone has acknowledged what I have lost. I know that the social worker warned Gran and Gramps not to upset me, but Gramps's recognition, and the permission he just offered me--it feels like a gift.Gramps doesn't leave me. He slumps back into the chair. It's quiet now. So quiet you can almost hear other people's dreams. So quiet that you can almost hear me tell Gramps, 'Thank you.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“Fake it 'till you make it.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.” ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went
“But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.” ― Gayle Forman , Where She Went
“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“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.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.” ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went
“You don’t share me. You own me.” ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went
“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“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.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.” ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went
“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.” ― Gayle Forman, Just One Day
“It's okay,' he tells me. 'If you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.' His voice cracks with emotion. He stops, clears his throat, takes a breath, and continues. 'But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So 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.'For the first time since I realized that Teddy was gone, too, I feel something unclench. I feel myself breathe. I know that Gramps can't be that late-inning pinch hitter I'd hoped for. He won't unplug my breathing tube or overdoes me with morphine or anything like that. But this is the first time today that anyone has acknowledged what I have lost. I know that the social worker warned Gran and Gramps not to upset me, but Gramps's recognition, and the permission he just offered me--it feels like a gift.Gramps doesn't leave me. He slumps back into the chair. It's quiet now. So quiet you can almost hear other people's dreams. So quiet that you can almost hear me tell Gramps, 'Thank you.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“Fake it 'till you make it.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.” ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went
“But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.” ― Gayle Forman , Where She Went
