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
song writing mia
Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.
dream people quiet
It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.
kissing sky giving
We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.
yesterday needs today
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.
trying busy you-left-me
You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.
life-is fats bigs
Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.
cacophony tough sometimes
All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.
ifs
What would you do if you had to choose?
life moving-on letting-go
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.
girlfriend stupid wife
Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her 'wife.
feelings absence calculus
In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
dream sleep naps
Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.
dying care realizing
I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.
real what-if asking
But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?