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.

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

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

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

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

—George Burns

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Art is the proper task of life.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

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If you don't try at anything, you can't fail. It takes back bone to lead the life you want.

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But life doesn't always turn out the way you think it will, and that can be rather wonderful.

—Victoria Connelly in At Home with Mr. Darcy

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