If I Stay Quotes

• 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

  Kissing, Giving, Magic

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.77, Penguin

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• Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

  Gayle Forman

  Life, Choices, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Oct 16, 2014

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• You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia

  Gayle Forman

  Wish, The End Of The Day, Mia

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.82, Penguin

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• I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

  Gayle Forman

  Lovely, Dying, Realizing

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Nov 10, 2014

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

  Gayle Forman

  Ifs

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.45, Penguin

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• Love can make you immortal

  Gayle Forman

  Immortal

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Oct 02, 2014

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• Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.

  Gayle Forman

  Might, Different, Different Roads

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jan 20, 2016

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• It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.

  Gayle Forman

  Dream, People, Quiet

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.87, Penguin

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• But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.

  Gayle Forman

  Romantic Love, Yesterday, Movie Love

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from May 03, 2017

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• It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.

  Rian Johnson

  Goes On, Future Plans, Ifs

  "Rian Johnson’s Feedback Loop". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2012.

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• And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.

  Gayle Forman

  Loss, Long, Fades

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Apr 10, 2014

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• I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.

  Gayle Forman

  Running, Fighting

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.92, Penguin

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• 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

  Fighting, Want, Might

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.87, Penguin

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• I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

  Gayle Forman

  Love, Wake Up, World

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jan 05, 2017

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• 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.

  Gayle Forman

  New York, Talking, Going Away

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jun 21, 2014

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• 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

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.87, Penguin

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• I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

  Gayle Forman

  Feelings, Littles, Invincible

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from May 04, 2014

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• You just work through it. You just hang in there.

  Gayle Forman

  Hang In There

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.17, Penguin

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

  Gayle Forman

  Horse, Kings, Men

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.15, Penguin

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• I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.

  M.I.A.

  Thinking, Funeral, Wish

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• I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

  Gayle Forman

  Dying, Care, Realizing

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.84, Penguin

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• Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.

  Gayle Forman

  Song, Writing, Mia

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.94, Penguin

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• Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

  Gayle Forman

  Life Is, Bigs, Fats

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• Adam is crying and 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

  Pain, Loss, Profound

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.111, Penguin

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• Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

  Gayle Forman

  Pain, One Day, Scared

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