Gayle Forman - Quodid

About

Gayle Forman (born June 5, 1970) is 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.

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Quotes from Gayle Forman

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.

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Year

danger safety loving live

Sometimes the best way to find out what you're supposed to do is by doing the thing you're not supposed to do.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Day

action purpose

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.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Day

love life kisses breath

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

people difference absence feelings preference

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Year

I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

love hate relationships meanness

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Day

feeling presence space absence

I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once I understood it, it dissipated.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

understanding hate anger

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

I wasn't totally immune to the charms of the opposite sex, but I wasn't one of those romantic, swoony girls who had pink fluffy daydreams about falling in love.

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

love romance charm

Isn't it amazing how life is one thing, and then, in an instant, it becomes something else?

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

love

The best day of my life was one I never even saw coming.

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

Books

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