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

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About 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.

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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

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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

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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

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

—Gayle Forman in Just One Day

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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

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