Before I Fall Quotes

• 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.

  Lauren Oliver

  Kids, Wish, Want

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• i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Miracle, World

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• Hope keeps you alive.

  Lauren Oliver

  Alive

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.59, HarperCollins

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• 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

  Life, Inspiration, Waiting

  "Before I Fall: The official film tie-in that will take your breath away". Book by Lauren Oliver, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• So many things become beautiful when you really look.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Looks

  "Before I Fall". Book by Lauren Oliver, 2010.

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• A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

  Lauren Oliver

  Good Friend, Keeping Secrets, Best Kept Secrets

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.47, HarperCollins

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• 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've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

  Lauren Oliver

  Change, Breakup, Wind

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• 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.

  Lauren Oliver

  Letting Go, Jumping, Air

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• How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Able

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• This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Trying, Helping

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.202, Hachette UK

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• Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

  Lauren Oliver

  Looks, Different, Moments

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• You either have chemistry or you don't, but a lot of what attracts me is a guy's mind and humor and talent. I need to get to know all those things before I fall for someone. I'm not a one-night-stand kind of girl. I'm a relationship girl.

  Nina Dobrev

  Girl, Fall, Night

  "Nina Dobrev Is Our September Cover Girl!" by Laura Brounstein, www.cosmopolitan.com. August 5, 2013.

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• 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

  Lauren Oliver

  Philosophy, Thinking, People

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.242, Hachette UK

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• If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lines, Crosses, Ifs

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• It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.

  Lauren Oliver

  Morning, Thinking, World

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

  Lauren Oliver

  Growing Up, Laughing, Sides

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.

  Lauren Oliver

  Light, Laughing, Feelings

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• I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Knowing, Used

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.95, Hachette UK

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• Putting my hand in someone else’s has always been my definition of happiness. Before I fall asleep, often - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and go into the greater world - often, before I get up the courage to go into the vastness of sleep, I pretend that someone has my hand in theirs, and then I go, go to that enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even after that I don’t have courage, I dream.

  Clarice Lispector

  Dream, Struggle, Fall

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• I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.'

  Troy Garity

  Fall, Years, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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