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
want persons
I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.
if-i-stay hang-in-there
You just work through it. You just hang in there.
school romance forever
...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...
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.
territory courageous
C'est courageux d'aller dans l'inconnu': It is courageous to go into territory unknown.
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.
one-day four twenties
It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam
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.
may honest liberation
Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.
matter still-in-love found
And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.
one-day cease
How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?
letting-go hands years
But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.
trying lips body
And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.
play want i-want-you
I want you to play me like a cello.