Russell Smithson

“maybe coming back to your old life would just be too painful, that maybe it’d be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I’d 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

“Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Waiting for Vengeance'

Well, what is this?
What am I coming to?
And beyond that, what am I gonna do?
Now there’s blankness
Where once your eyes held the light
But that was so long ago
That was last night

Well, what was that?
What’s that sound that I hear?
It’s just my lifetime
Its whistling past my ear
And when I look back
Everything seems smaller than life
The way it’s been for so long
Since last night

Now I’m leaving
Any moment I’ll be gone
I think you’ll notice
I think you’ll wonder what went wrong
I’m not choosing
But I’m running out of fight
And this was decided so long ago
It was last night”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“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 back.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay