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“You always have the right to be an asshole - you just shouldn’t use that right very often.”
— Sam Halpern (Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern)
“No, you can’t go getting mad at people because they’re shitty. Life will get mad at them, don’t worry.”
— Sam Halpern (Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern)
“…maybe coming back to your old life would just 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.”
— Adam Wilde (If I Stay, Gayle Forman)
“But I’d understand if you chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And either way you lose. What can I tell you? Love’s a bitch.”
— Mrs. Hall (If I Stay, Gayle Forman)
“You guys seemed, still seem, in love, truly, deeply. But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.”
— Mrs. Hall (If I Stay, Gayle Forman)
“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you. Does that make any sense?”
— Mr. Hall (If I Stay, Gayle Forman)
“I wonder if every dying person gets to decide whether to stay or go.”
— Mia Hall (If I Stay, Gayle Forman)
“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?”
— Mia Hall (If I Stay, Gayle Forman)
“It wasn’t Adam making me nervous. I’d grown comfortable enough around him by now. It was the uncertainty. What was this, exactly? A date? A friendly favor?”
— Mia Hall (If I Stay, Gayle Forman)
“And I almost stayed in Puerto Rico to marry a fat SOB. But I didn’t. And I have a different life now. Almost don’t matter. You got to deal with the situation at hand.”
— Nurse (If I Stay, Gayle Forman)