Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.
How can I come this far and not tell him - he, who would understand it best - that by giving my that flyer, by inviting me to skip Hamlet, he helped me realize that it's not to be that matters, but how to be?
You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.
Gayle FormanTag: travel wanderlust traveling
It's like my ear attunes to the weird language and I'm sucked fully into the story, the same way I am when I watch a movie, so that I feel it.
Gayle FormanIt's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.
Gayle FormanTag: life-and-living
Would we fall in love if we met today?
Gayle FormanSometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd gone and chosen the cello.
Gayle FormanTag: family difference different page-23 if-i-stay mia 9-23-a-m
In English class, someone flung a folded-up square of notebook paper onto the floor next to my right foot. I picked it up and opened it. It read, Bitch! Nobody had ever called me that before, and though I was automatically furious, deep down i was also flattered that I had elicited enough emotion to be worthy of the name.
Gayle FormanTag: page-70 bitch gayle-forman if-i-stay
Anyhow, she didn't care, that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.
Gayle FormanTag: page-70 bitch gayle-forman if-i-stay
Adam's lips are set in a grime line. I can't tell if he's about to cry or about to punch the guard. For his sake, I hope it's the former. For you own, I hope the latter.
Gayle FormanTag: grief adam page-147 gayle-forman if-i-stay mia
We went to church sometimes, so it's not like Mom had anything against religion, but Kerry totally did and Mom was ferociously protective of the people she loved, so much that she took insults up them personally.
Gayle FormanTag: gayle-forman if-i-stay page-168
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