If I Stay Quotes

“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“If you stay, I’ll do whatever you want. I’ll quit the band; go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I’ll do that too. .. And that would suck, but I’ll do it. I can lose you like that, if I don’t lose you today. I’ll let you go. If you stay.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Dying is easy. Living is hard”
― Gayle forman, If I Stay

“Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Adam had chosen me, and this I didn't understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn't make sense.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“I am running the show. Everyone is waiting for me. I decide. I know this now.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“In English class, someone flung a folded-up square of notebook paper onto the floor next to my right foot. I picked it up and opened it. It read, Bitch! Nobody had ever called me that before, and though I was automatically furious, deep down i was also flattered that I had elicited enough emotion to be worthy of the name.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“I only need a second. So I can show her that I'm here. That someone's still here.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“The you you are now is the same you I was in love with yesterday and the same you i'll be in love with tomorrow.”
― Gayle Foreman

“Adam's lips are set in a grime line. I can't tell if he's about to cry or about to punch the guard. For his sake, I hope it's the former. For you own, I hope the latter.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“It's quiet now. So quiet that you can almost hear other people's dreams So quiet that you can almost hear me tell Gramps, Thank you.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“We went to church sometimes, so it's not like Mom had anything against religion, but Kerry totally did and Mom was ferociously protective of the people she loved, so much that she took insults up them personally.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“C'mon, Mee,' Henry said. 'You're among family.' 'Totally,' Kim said.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Anyhow, she didn't care, that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“But the you who are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow. I love that you're fragile and tough, quiet and kick-ass.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“She's not my nurse but she comes up to Gran and Gramps just the same. "Don't you doubt for a second that she can hear you," she tells them. "She's aware if everything that's going on." She stands there with her hands on her hip. I can almost picture her snapping gum. Gran and Gramps stare at her, lapping up what she's telling them. "You might think the doctors or nurses or all this equipment is running the show," she says, gesturing to the wall of medical equipment. "Nuh-uh. She's running the show. Maybe she's just biding her time. So you talk to her. You tell her to take all the time she needs, but to come on back. You're waiting for her.”
― Gayle Forman

“There was no point getting all worked up about a kiss. One kiss does not a relationship make. I'd kissed boys before, and usually by the next day the kiss had evaporated like a dewdrop in the sun.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Pero yo sabía que con Adam sí había motivos para armar revuelo. Lo sabía por el calor que recorrió mi cuerpo aquella noche, cuando me dejó en casa después del concierto y me besó una vez más en la puerta. Lo sabía porque me quedé despierta hasta el amanecer abrazada a la almohada. Porque no puede comer al día siguiente, ni borrarme la sonrisa de la cara.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again”
― Gale Forman

“I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter”
― Gayle Forman

“It had to do with the doubts. The same niggling doubts I always had about not belonging. I didn't feel like I belonged with my family, and now I didn't feel like I belonged with Adam, except unlike my family, who was stuck with me, Adam had chosen me, and this I didn't understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn't make sense.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“kau bisa saja mamiliki keinginan, rencana, tapi pada akhirnya, kau tidak bisa mengendalikannya”
― Tia