I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go.
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Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
With this stunning debut novel, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver emerged as one of today's foremost authors of young adult fiction. Like Gayle Forman's If I Stay and Nicola Yoon's Everything, Everything
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Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.
Nobody ever said life was fair.
It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all.
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. I... wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, little rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of…
That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.
This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.
I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people--to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa.
Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.
Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep, because of what I'm leaving behind.
It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I…
It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.
A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.
I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.
So many things become beautiful when you really look.