If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)

by Gayle Forman

“Not practice? For twenty-four hours? Be still, my broken heart,” Mom says. Though she has acquired a taste for classical music over the years—“it’s like learning to appreciate a stinky cheese”—she’s been a not-always-delighted captive audience for many of my marathon rehearsals.

“All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

I can lose you like that if I don’t lose you today. I’ll let you go. If you stay.”