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If I Stay
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"If I Stay" Quotes

A teenage girl must make a heart-wrenching decision after a car accident leaves her in a coma.

Quotes

I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

Gayle Forman

lifedeath

Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.

Gayle Forman

love

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

Gayle Forman

life

The you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the you I'll be in love with tomorrow.

Gayle Forman

love

It's the weirdest thing about being a parent. You tell these little people to do one thing, and they go the other way.

Gayle Forman

parenting

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.

Gayle Forman

understandingacceptance

You're wondering if I'm getting hurt. That's sweet, but not necessary. I'm already hurt.

Gayle Forman

emotions

Not everyone has to be the Chloë Moretz character in ‘If I Stay’, you know?

Gayle Forman

individualityself-acceptance

I’m not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I’m not sure that I want to wake up.

Gayle Forman

uncertaintydepression

But I was beginning to understand that the world is nothing but a lot of moments, and moments are nothing but a lot of people, and sometimes people are right there with you, and sometimes they’re not.

Gayle Forman

liferelationships