Collected Book Quotes: If I Stay
Chapter 14 “Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.” — “Chapter 14.” If I Stay (Page 99) “I had broken through some invisible barrier and could finally play the pieces like I heard them being played in my head, and the result had been something transcendent: the mental and physical, the technical and…
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Chapter 14
“Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.”
— “Chapter 14.” If I Stay (Page 99)
“I had broken through some invisible barrier and could finally play the pieces like I heard them being played in my head, and the result had been something transcendent: the mental and physical, the technical and emotional sides of my abilities all finally blending.”
— “Chapter 14.” If I Stay (Page 95)
“Even as I was falling in love—full throttle, intense, can’t-erase-that-goofy-smile love—I didn’t really register what was happening. […] I felt so good that I didn’t bother thinking about what was going on with me, with us. It just felt normal and right, like slipping into a hot bubble bath.”
— “Chapter 14.” If I Stay (Page 94)
Chapter 13
“I’m not choosing, but I’m running out of fight.”
— If I Stay (Page 91)
“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
— If I Stay (Page 91)
Chapter 12
“I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it’s out of your control.”
— If I Stay (Page 81)
Chapter 11
“I don’t want to be in this suspended state where I can see what’s happening, where I’m aware of what I’m feeling without being able to actually feel it.”
— If I Stay (Page 76)
