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

—Gayle Forman in Just One Year

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

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

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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

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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

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

—Gayle Forman in Just One Year

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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

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History

30 Dec 2014 Added