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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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How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?

Boyfriend, Cease, Ceases, Day, Exist, One Day

You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?

Couple, Grieved, Hands, Says, Voice, Years

It doesn't rain every day. Just every other day.

Day, Rain

I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. Her hair, long and dark, is down now, swimming damply against her bare shoulders, which are still milky white and covered with the constellation of freckles that I used to kiss. The scar on her left shoulder, the one that used to be an angry red weld is silvery pink now. Almost like the latest rage in tattoo accessories. Almost pretty.

Bare, Beautiful, Eye, Freckles, Tattoo

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

Absence, Calculus, Feelings

It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it". Willem

Enough, Hours, One Day, Time, Willem, Years

It's ok if you want to stop fighting.

Fighting, Ifs, Stop, Want

I think you're the sort of person who finds money on the ground and waves it in the air and asks if anyone has lost it. I think you cry in movies that aren't even sad because you have a soft heart, though you don't let it show. I think you do things that scare you, and that makes you braver than those adrenaline junkies who bungee-jump off bridges.

Adrenaline, Air, Heart, Show, Soft, Thinking

So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices. " I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.

Arms, Fears, Forehead, Irrational Fear, Mia, Voice

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

Blurred, Falling In Love, Self, Think, Thinking

Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely

Fluid, Goes On, Indefinitely, One Day, Time

It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

Ends, Hope, Kind, Know, Stupidity, Takes

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

Back, Horse, Humpty, Kings, Like, Men

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. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would 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.

Away, Band, Erase, Going Away, New York, Talking

. . all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.

Distance, Dream, Left, Mistake, Perfect

I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close. Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough.

Kissing, Night, Enough, Listen, Kiss

I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for almost three years, I managed not to miss any of them. And then I spent that one day with that one girl. One day. . . It was like she gave me her whole self, and somehow as a result, I gave her more of myself than I even realized there was to give. But then she was gone. And only after I'd been filled up by her, by that day, did I understand how empty I really was.

Father, Girl, Home, Mother, Self, Whole

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.

Doors, Fate, Key, Keys, Leaves, Pick

Really? Was that how you quit me?

Quit, Quitting

No one is who they pretend to be

Pretend

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