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 OliverTag: young-adult-fiction before-i-fall
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 OliverTag: before-i-fall
I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.
Lauren OliverTag: 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.
Tag: 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 OliverTag: young-adult-fiction before-i-fall
This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
Lauren OliverTag: 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 OliverTag: 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 OliverTag: young-adult-fiction before-i-fall
And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.
Lauren OliverTag: inspirational-quotes before-i-fall lauren-oliver
If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing...
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