Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.
Lauren OliverMots clés life growing-up
i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.
Lauren OliverThe details that are my life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced.
Lauren Oliver"...love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.
Lauren OliverMots clés love
If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing...
Lauren OliverMots clés before-i-fall lauren-oliver sam-kingston
Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you.
-Lauren Oliver, Delerium
Mots clés fear love lauren-oliver
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 OliverMots clés miracle kent sam before-i-fall steps
i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.
Lauren OliverMots clés open-eyes sam before-i-fall
He draws a slow circle in the dirt with his toe, the first physical sign of discomfort or distraction he has given since we arrived. In that moment I am in awe of him: Since I've known him he has done nothing but support me and give me comfort and listen to me, and all this time he has been carrying the weight of his own secrets too.
Lauren OliverHere'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.
Mots clés life-lessons
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