If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)

by Gayle Forman

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow. I love that you’re fragile and tough, quiet and kick-ass. Hell, you’re one of the punkest girls I know, no matter who you listen to or what you wear.”

“They’ll find you out right away. They’ll throw you out on your backside.” “I don’t care,” Adam responds. “I only need a second.” “Why? I mean what can you do in a second?” Adam pauses for a second. His eyes, which are normally a kind of mutt’s mixture of gray and brown and green, have gone dark. “So I can show her that I’m here. That someone’s still here.”

I shouldn’t have to care. I shouldn’t have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

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