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
heartache feelings stomach
My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.
if-i-stay immortal
Love can make you immortal
jail would-be losing
Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.
wind coffins good-intentions
(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
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.
sun thousand sun-rise
A thousand suns rise from my chest.
fake
Fake it till you make it actually worked.
escaping hands feelings
Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.
grieving competition never-expect
That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.
life believe differences
I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.
letting-go hands fingers
Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.
choke i-can manage
You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?
couple hands years
You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?
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.