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
fate mia way
In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.
dark winter needs
In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right.
rain snow half
Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.
beautiful way freckles
She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Byrn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me.
mistress liz fickle
Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.
kissing cutting simple
My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.
feet fire attention
There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn’t looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I’d just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me.
letting-you-go ifs
I'll let you go. If you stay.
closure loathe
Closure. I loathe that word.
letting-go swimming thinking
I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we always let go. But after we bobbed to the surface, we'd climb out of the pool, clamber up the high-dive ladder, clasp hands, and do it again. We're swimming separately now. I get that. Maybe it's just what you have to do to keep above water. But who knows? Maybe one day, we'll climb out, grab hands, and jumo again.
littles little-things sometimes
The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.
one-day anything-can-happen happens
Anything can happen in one day.
fate keys doors
Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.
travel breathing inspiring-travel
Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.