If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)

by Gayle Forman

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you. Does that make any sense?”

You guys seemed, still seem, in love, truly, deeply.” She sighed. “But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.”

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

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.”

And I bet she’ll be a stronger person because of what she’s lost today. I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

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