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If I Stay by Gayle Forman
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"Sometimes you brand choices in life and sometimes choices make you."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"If you stay, I'll do whatever you desire. I'll quit the band, become with you lot to New York. But if you demand me to go away, I'll do that, likewise. I was talking to Liz and she said mayhap coming dorsum to your quondam life would exist also painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I tin can lose yous like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let y'all go. If you lot stay."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"And that'due south merely information technology, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes abroad, it never fades, then long every bit you hang on to it."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"Love, it never dies. Information technology never goes away, information technology never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal"
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"I'thousand not certain this is a world I vest in anymore. I'thousand not sure that I desire to wake up."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"Losing me will hurt; it will exist the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, information technology will take her breath abroad."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"Don't be scared...Women tin can handle the worst kind of hurting. You lot'll find out 1 day."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"I merely wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. Information technology's okay if you have to leave united states of america. It'due south okay if you lot want to cease fighting."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"It's okay,' he tells me. 'If you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than than I've always wanted annihilation in my life.' His voice cracks with emotion. He stops, clears his throat, takes a breath, and continues. 'But that'due south what I want and I could encounter why information technology might not be what y'all want. Then I just wanted to tell you that I sympathize if you go. It's okay if y'all have to leave usa. It's okay if you desire to stop fighting.'

For the beginning fourth dimension since I realized that Teddy was gone, too, I feel something unclench. I feel myself breathe. I know that Grandpa tin can't be that tardily-inning pinch hitter I'd hoped for. He won't unplug my breathing tube or overdoes me with morphine or anything like that. But this is the first fourth dimension today that anyone has acknowledged what I have lost. I know that the social worker warned Gran and Grandad not to upset me, simply Gramps'southward recognition, and the permission he just offered me--it feels like a gift.

Gramps doesn't go out me. He slumps dorsum into the chair. It'due south quiet now. And then quiet you can almost hear other people's dreams. And so quiet that you tin can well-nigh hear me tell Granddad, 'Cheers."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"I'thou not choosing, just I'grand running out of fight."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"Fake it 'till you make it."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"Girlfriend is such a stupid discussion. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, then I could call her 'wife."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"People believe what they want to believe."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'grand feeling non only the concrete pain, only all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing volition always make full."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"But I'd understand if yous chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And either way you lose. What tin can I tell you? Love's a bitch."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"This is the you I like. You definitely dressed sexier and are, you know, blond, and that's different. But the you who are tonight is the same you I was in beloved with yesterday, the same you lot I'll be in love with tomorrow. I love that y'all're delicate and tough, quiet and boot-ass. "
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"Information technology's quiet now. And so serenity that tin well-nigh hear other people'south dreams."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you get a little fleck invincible."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"Simply the you who you are tonight is the same you lot I was in beloved with yesterday, the same yous I'll exist in beloved with tomorrow."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"All I can call up virtually is how fucked upward it would be for your life to cease here, now. I hateful I know that your life if fucked up no matter what at present, forever. And I'1000 not dumb enough to call up that I tin undo that, that anyone can. But I can't wrap my listen around the notion of yous non getting onetime, having kids, going to Juilliard, getting to play that cello in front of a huge audience, and so that they tin can get the chills the way I do every time I see you lot selection up your bow, every fourth dimension I encounter you smile at me."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"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 expressionless. 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."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to piece of work this hard. I realize at present that dying is piece of cake. Living is hard."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"You can have your wishes, your plans, merely at the end of the 24-hour interval, it's out of your command."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"Y'all but work through it. You lot just hang in at that place."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"We are similar Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king'south men cannot put the states back together again"
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations"
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"How am I supposed to decide this? How can I possibly stay without mom and dad? How can I leave without Teddy? Or Adam? This is as well much. I don't even understand how it all works, why I'm hither in the country that I'm in or how to become out of it if I wanted to. If I were to say, I want to wake upwardly, would I wake up right now? I've already tried snapping my heels to detect Teddy and tried to axle myself to Hawaii, and that didn't work. This seems a whole lot more complicated.
But in spite of that, I believe it'due south truthful. I hear the nurse's words again. I am running the bear witness. Anybody'due south waiting on me.
I decide. I know this now.
And this terrifies me more than anything else that has happened today."
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

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