Gayle Forman, If I Stay

Gayle Forman, If I Stay

"In a funny way, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine. Because even though he had blue hair and tattoos and wore leather jackets and worked in a record store, he wanted to marry Mom back at a time when the rest of their friends were still having drunken one-night stands. "Girlfriend is such a stupid word," he said. "I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her "wife"'."
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"In a funny way, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine. Because even though he had blue hair and tattoos and wore leather jackets and worked in a record store, he wanted to marry Mom back at a time when the rest of their friends were still having drunken one-night stands. "Girlfriend is such a stupid word," he said. "I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her "wife"'."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd gone and chosen the cello."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"Look I accept Adam because you love him. And I assume he accepts me because you love me...your love binds us.'... The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim's notion that they were somehow bound together through me- until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"If I stay. If I live. Itโ€™s up to me. All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. Itโ€™s not up to the doctors. Itโ€™s not up to the absentee angels. Itโ€™s not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. Itโ€™s up to me."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"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, If I Stay
"It wasn't even a fight, really. We didn't shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"Almost don't matter. You got to deal with the situation at hand."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?"
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"When we got back home, Gramps dropped me off and enveloped me in a hug. Normally, he was a handshaker, maybe a back-patter on really special occasions. His hug was strong and tight, and I knew it was his way of telling me that he'd had a wonderful time.โ€œMe, too, Gramps,โ€ I whispered."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"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
"Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"Every fiction has its base in fact."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"Dying is easy. Living is hard"
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family. She stops now. Leans over me so that 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
"Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"I do have a point to all this,โ€ she continues. โ€œThere are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But weโ€™re all your family.โ€ She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. โ€œYou still have a family,โ€ she whispers."
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
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