“My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.”
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*Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. Stay, he says.* Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind? Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters. If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make
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Gayle Forman
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“My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.”
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“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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“Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.”
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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.”
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“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
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“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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“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...”
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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...”
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“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
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“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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“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 catas...”
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“Fake it 'till you make it.”
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“Ponekad ti donosiš odluke u životu, a ponekad se odluke donesu same.”
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“Samo mislim da su sprovodi vrlo slični smrti. Možeš imati želje i planove, ali na kraju ipak nemaš kontrolu ni nad čim.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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