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Before I Fall
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"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.

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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.

Lauren Oliver

timeuncertainty

What if you could live your life over again? Would you make all the same choices?

Lauren Oliver

lifechoices

I am walking to the door, then I am through it, and I am outside, and I am breathing, and I am alive.

Lauren Oliver

lifeappreciation

It's stupid and irrational, but it's true: I'm scared to death of time.

Lauren Oliver

feartime

Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.

Lauren Oliver

consequenceschoices

Sometimes you can't see what you are learning until you come out the other side.

Lauren Oliver

learninggrowth

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.

Lauren Oliver

changelife

I've been waiting for this all day, and not even the rain can ruin it.

Lauren Oliver

appreciationjoy

It's strange how easy it is to forget, and then just as strangely to remember.

Lauren Oliver

memoryforgetting

It's funny how you never think about the women you've made into ghosts.

Lauren Oliver

regretreflection