Gayle Forman
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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
share where-she-went
You don’t share me. You own me.
if-i-stay hang-in-there
You just work through it. You just hang in there.
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.
one-day cease
How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?
quitting
Really? Was that how you quit me?
bye airports labor-day
She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.
realizing enough knows
I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.
persons built
He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be
kindness generosity giving
He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time.
stains
Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.
realizing
I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for; it’s Lulu too.