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Love can make you immortal

Gayle Forman

If I Stay, Immortal

FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Oct 02, 2014

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

Gayle Forman

If I Stay, Ifs

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

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It's nice, this. The canal." He looks at me. "You." "I'll bet you say that to all the canals.

Gayle Forman

Nice, Looks, Canals

Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.53, Penguin

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For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of double happiness and we were arguing over the meaning. She’d thought it meant the luck of the boy getting the job and the girl. But I’d disagreed. It was the couplet fitting together, the two halves finding each other. It was love. But maybe we were both wrong, and both right. It’s not either or, not luck or love. Not fate or will. Maybe for double happiness, you need both.

Gayle Forman

Girl, Jobs, Fate

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Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush

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Silence, Needs, Dover

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And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

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Matter, Still In Love, Lost

Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.217, Penguin

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I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.

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Skills, Kitchen, Making Friends

Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.125, Penguin

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

Gayle Forman

New Year, Years, Promise

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And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons. It never occurred to me that by pretending to be Lulu, I might slip into that other column, even for just a day.

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Two, People, Groups

Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.31, Penguin

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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.

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Kissing, Night, Enough

Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.23, Penguin

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I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

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Crazy, Quests, Helping

Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.216, Penguin

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The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there.

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Night, Return, Painful

Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.30, Penguin

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The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.

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Dust, Ovation, Bows

Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.132, Penguin

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I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

Gayle Forman

Life, Believe, Differences

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That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

Gayle Forman

Grieving, Competition, Never Expect

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How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

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Hands, Fingers, Unclear

Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.119, Penguin

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What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear

Gayle Forman

Past, Sound, Ears

Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.91, Penguin

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In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.

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Fate, Legacy, Mia

Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.47, Penguin

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I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

Gayle Forman

Two, Survival, Being True

FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Apr 24, 2015

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

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Rain, Snow, Dresses

Gayle Forman (2015). “I Was Here”, p.177, Penguin

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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

Beautiful, Way, Freckles

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I like French fries," I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.

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Children, Sound, Tvs

Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.39, Penguin

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Really? Was that how you quit me?

Gayle Forman

Quitting

Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.91, Penguin

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She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.

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Airports, Bye, Labor Day

FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Feb 27, 2014

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It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.

Gayle Forman

Thinking, Scared

FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Feb 03, 2013

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