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

About Gayle Forman

Portrait of Gayle Forman

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.

More quotations from Gayle Forman

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

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 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

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

—Gayle Forman in Just One Year

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

History

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