I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my ch... - Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like."
"I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like."
"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."
"Fake it 'till you make it."
"Please Mia,"he implores. "Don't make me write a song."
"Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all."
"Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take."