Gayle Forman If I Stay Quotes

#1. Dying is easy. Living is hard

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#2. I only need a second. So I can show her that I'm here. That someone's still here.

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#3. C'mon, Mee,' Henry said. 'You're among family.' 'Totally,' Kim said.

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#4. 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.

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#5. I can lose you like that, if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay. - Adam Wilde, If I Stay

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#6. I am running the show. Everyone is waiting for me. I decide. I know this now.

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#7. She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.

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#8. But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

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#11. If you stay, I'll do whatever you want.

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#12. If I stay. If I live. It's up to me.
All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It's not up to the doctors. It's not up to the absentee angels. It's not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It's up to me.

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#13. I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter

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#14. Please Mia, don't make me write a song ... - Adam Wilde, If I Stay

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#15. Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal

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#16. Everyone loves New York City for all these different reasons. The culture. The mix of people. The pace. The food. But for me, it's like one epic Easter egg hunt. You're always finding these little surprises around every corner.

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#17. If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.

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#18. People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

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#19. We went to church sometimes, so it's not like Mom had anything against religion, but Kerry totally did and Mom was ferociously protective of the people she loved, so much that she took insults up them personally.

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#20. He kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.

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#21. 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.

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#22. I'll let you go. If you stay.

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#23. And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.

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

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#25. There was no point getting all worked up about a kiss. One kiss does not a relationship make. I'd kissed boys before, and usually by the next day the kiss had evaporated like a dewdrop in the sun.

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#26. I've never toughened up enough to handle what I'd have to handle if I were to stay.

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#27. I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

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#28. But I'd understand if you chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And either way you lose. What can I tell you? Love's a bitch.

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#29. In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed

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#30. 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.

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#31. People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.

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#32. Adam had chosen me, and this I didn't understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn't make sense.

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

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