"Before I Fall" Quotes
A popular girl relives the last day of her life seven times, learning valuable lessons about friendship and kindness along the way.
young adult | 470 pages | Published in 2010
Quotes
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 in 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.
What if you could live your life over again? Would you make all the same choices?
I am walking to the door, then I am through it, and I am outside, and I am breathing, and I am alive.
It's stupid and irrational, but it's true: I'm scared to death of time.
Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.
Sometimes you can't see what you are learning until you come out the other side.
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.
I've been waiting for this all day, and not even the rain can ruin it.
It's strange how easy it is to forget, and then just as strangely to remember.
It's funny how you never think about the women you've made into ghosts.