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
tired missing
I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.
falling-in-love one-day anything-can-happen
We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.
four might twenties
A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.
mess deals mines
I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed
powerful feelings painful
I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.
feelings littles invincible
I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.
relationship thinking demand
There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.
falling-in-love thinking self
The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.
love relationship marriage
Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.
trying way different
Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.
pain loss profound
Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.
doors hands perfect-days
...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then someone came along and showed me there was a door in the room. One that I'd never even seen before. Then he opened it for me. Held my hand as I walked through it. And for one perfect day, I was on the other side. I was somewhere else. Someone else. And then he was gone, and I was thrown back into my little room. And now, no matter what I do, I can't seem to find that door.
who-i-am want knows
I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.
comfort would-be imagine
I can’t imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head—the comfort that would’ve brought.