“You never know what will last."He said that earlier, about accidents, about never knowing which one is just a kink in the road and which one is a fork, about never knowing your life is changing until it's already happened."I think sometimes you do know," I say, my voice filling with emotion.”

American young adult fiction author

Gayle Forman is an American young adult fiction author, best known for her novel If I Stay. The book reached the top of the New York Times Best Sellers list for Young Adult Fiction and was later adapted into a film of the same name. She writes for young adult readers and is most closely associated with If I Stay, the work that brought her widest recognition. Her public profile rests on that novel and its film adaptation, which extended its reach beyond the page.