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“People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.”
― Lauren Oliver , Before I Fall

“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. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind.”
― Lauren Oliver, 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.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.”
― 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”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“And I guess that's when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word -- death? Dying? Dead?

Do you think I was being stupid? Naive?

Try not to judge. Remember that we're the same, you and me.

I thought I would live forever too.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“I want to help you,' I say to Juliet, though I know that I can't make her understand, not like this.

'Don't you get it?' She turns to me, and to my surprise I see she's crying. 'I can't be fixed, do you understand?'

I think of standing on the stairs with Kent and saying exactly the same thing. I think of his beautiful light green eyes, and the way he said, You don't need to be fixed and the warmth of his hands and the softness of his lips. I think of Juliet's mask and how maybe we all feel patched and stitched together and not quite right.

I am not afraid.

Dimly, I have the sense of roaring in my ears and voices so close and faces, white and frightened, emerging from the darkness, but I can't stop staring at Juliet as she's crying, still so beautiful.

'It's too late,' she says.

And I say, 'It's never too late.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. It's the great male fantasy - all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know - this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don't want a very long courtships. They want to know immediately.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it's real?”
― Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust

“I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust

“Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust

“Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust

“The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust

“Waiters are the help, dear. It's like falling in love with a blender!”
― Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust

“The tree leaves rustled like that noise e-books make when you turn the page.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow

“You obviously don't have my soul or you wouldn't be trying to make deals.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust