But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.
Gayle Forman, If I Stay.
“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 ol...”
“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”
“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”
“Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.”
“I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.”
“But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you Ill be in love with tomorrow.”
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”
“Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis.”
“All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was how to get out alive.”
“Now you're an adult, Katya!" he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born.”