Quotes from Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

Who the hell calls at two in the morning?""Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love, " Lindsay says."Very funny,

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

So many things become beautiful when you really look

And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took

I'm dead, but I can't stop living.

I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalita's, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, like rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe.

...I've never really had a party before.""Why did you have one now?" I say, just to keep him talking.He gives a half laugh. "I thought if I had a party, you would come.

I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say.

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.

Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.