Book Title: If I Stay
Author: Gayle Forman
Publisher: Speak
Number of pages: 261
Genre: young adult, contemporary, music, drama
Release Date: April 6th 2010
Favorite Quotes:
“Cool in that he seemed totally happy to sit in the lunchroom absorbed in a book, not just pretending to read because he didn’t have anywhere to sit or anyone to sit with.”
“”I’ve never seen anyone get into music as much as you do. It’s why I like to watch you practice. You get the crease in your forehead, right there,” Adam said, touching me above the bridge of my nose. “I’m obsessed with music and I don’t even get transported like you do.”
“His face, illuminated by the lights, is blank, like someone vacuumed away all his personality, leaving only a mask. He doesn’t look like him. But at least he’s not crying.”
“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
Goodreads Synopsis:
Mia had everything: a loving family, a gorgeous, adoring boyfriend, and a bright future full of music and full of choices. Then, in an instant, almost all of that is taken from her. Caught between life and death, between a happy past and an unknowable future, Mia spends one critical day contemplating the one decision she has left—the most important decision she’ll ever make.
Simultaneously tragic and hopeful, this is a romantic, riveting and ultimately uplifting story about memory, music, living, and dying.
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