Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Who the hell calls at two in the morning"Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love," Lindsay says."Very funny,"
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"Who the hell calls at two in the morning"Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love," Lindsay says."Very funny,"
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"It’s kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there’s no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you’re no longer a kid but a “young adult,” and after that you’re a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"He pauses for only a fraction of a second. Then he leans forward and presses his lips to mine, and the whole world powers off, the moon and the rain and the sky and the streets, and it’s just the two of us in the dark, alive, alive, alive."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine, but it's too late, I'm slipping, I'm gone, he's gone, and the moment curls away and back on itself like a flower folding up for the night."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. “I thought if I had a party, you would come."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took"
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"You can’t go home again” ─ isn’t necessarily that places change but people do."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserve to die? So bad I deserved to die like that?I what I did really so much worse than waht anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday?” I roll my eyes. “I don’t know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback.” “I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party.” He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. “And I’m not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks.” “What’s an acid flashback?” Izzy crows. “Nothing,” my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Here's the last thing that occurs to me as Sarah recedes in the rearview mirror, slamming out of the car, jogging across the parking lot: If you're one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up"
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"I keep quiet and look out the window. The light is weak and watery-looking, like the sun hast just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up. The shadows are as sharp and pointed as needles. I watch three black crows take off simultaneausly from a telephone wire and wish I could take off too, move up, up, up, and watch the ground drop away from me the way it does when you're on an airplane, folding and compressing into itself like an origami figure, until everything is flat and brightly colored - until the world is like a drawing of itself"
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Maybe Lindsay and I are best friends and we hate each other, both. Maybe I’m only one math class away from being a slut like Anna Cartullo. Maybe I am like her, deep down. Maybe we all are: just one lunch period away from eating alone in the bathroom. I wonder if it’s ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Look, I'm not going to have sex with him just so he'll say that he loves me, you know"... That isn't why I was planning to have sex with Rob - to hear the words, I mean. I just wanted to get it over with. I think. Actually, I'm not sure why it seemed so important."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
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