About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page.
"Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?" I inquired.
He wrote and whispered the words aloud as he did. "I am in the library. It smells like old stuff."
"It smells familiar," I suggested. "It smells like words." Because his left side was to me, I couldn't easily take his hand to write.
"Books are boring," James said as he wrote.
"They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.
He thought about this and then wrote with a smile, "I hate books.
Tags: libraries ghosts young-adult-fiction
And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to have everything together when really she's just floundering like the rest of us. Lindsay, who will bite at you if you even look in her direction the wrong way, like on of those tiny attack dogs that are always barking and snapping in the air before they're jerked backward on the chains that keep them in one place.
Lauren OliverTags: young-adult-fiction before-i-fall
I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.
Lauren OliverTags: young-adult-fiction before-i-fall
Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it.
You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to bust out of orbit, to spin out to a place where no one can touch you. To lose yourself--to get lost.
Or maybe you wouldn't be surprised. Maybe some of you already know.
To those people, I can only say: I'm sorry.
Tags: young-adult-fiction before-i-fall
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 OliverTags: young-adult-fiction before-i-fall
This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
Lauren OliverTags: young-adult-fiction before-i-fall
How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?
Lauren OliverTags: young-adult-fiction before-i-fall
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 OliverTags: young-adult-fiction before-i-fall
District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.
Suzanne CollinsTags: young-adult-fiction
There is no law stronger than that of
magic. - Kian
Tags: love romance fantasy paranormal-romance magic fairy fairyland teen-fantasy young-adult-fiction bitter-frost-series
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