Quote

If I stay. If I live. It's up to me.

Gayle Forman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
Writer
LA
California
Stay
Live

More quotes by Gayle Forman

Image
Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.
Gayle Forman
Image
C'est courageux d'aller dans l'inconnu': It is courageous to go into territory unknown.
Gayle Forman
Image
I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.
Gayle Forman
Image
It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.
Gayle Forman
Image
The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.
Gayle Forman
Image
There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn’t looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I’d just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me.
Gayle Forman
Image
Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
Gayle Forman
Image
I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.
Gayle Forman
Image
It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.
Gayle Forman
Image
But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.
Gayle Forman
Image
It's ok if you want to stop fighting.
Gayle Forman
Image
Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.
Gayle Forman
Image
So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew me here.” “What? Like a plastic bag?” “I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.
Gayle Forman
Image
In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
Gayle Forman
Image
Closure. I loathe that word.
Gayle Forman
Image
I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.
Gayle Forman
Image
I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.
Gayle Forman
Image
The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bad Whispers in my ear :Better of Dead Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret Kisses me gently when i wake up in a sweat boo!
Gayle Forman
Image
Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.
Gayle Forman
Image
She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Byrn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me.
Gayle Forman