Before Quotes

“Sometimes I just want to drown out the world around me, and music and reading are the only things that do that for me.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“Once you wear a mask for as long as she has, it’s nearly impossible to take it off. Either that, or she’s the one who feels invisible.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“He ruled everything, until she came in and took his crown.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“I’m sure everyone gets the warning label read to them before they have to have any exposure to me.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“Lo sintió en el momento en que los labios de ella rozaron los suyos por primera vez. Sintió que algo se revolvía en su interior, en un lugar profundo, escondido y cubierto de polvo. No recordaba que nadie hubiera llegado nunca hasta él, probablemente nadie lo había hecho hasta entonces. Ella lo despertó, le trajo la luz y la risa y el anhelo y, en el instante en que sus labios se encontraros supo que jamas volveria a ser el mismo”
― Anna Todd, Antes de ella

“Tessa’s head falls to the side, and I brush her hair away from her sleeping face. She’s been my calm, my fire, my breath, my pain, and no matter what we’ve gone through, every second was worth getting to the life we have now. I dragged Tess and myself through hell and back, but here we are—After everything, we made it to our own version of heaven.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“It’s kind of amazing that at this early point in the morning he so resembles a freshly minted preppy action figure, still in the packaging.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“Antes no le iba mal. Antes de cometer el error más hermoso de su vida al permitir que ella se convirtiera en su mundo entero. Pero la quería, la quería tanto que lo aterrorizaba perderla, porque si la perdía a ella se perdería a si mismo, y sabia que no iba a poder soportar una pérdida como ésa después de haber pasado toda su vida sin nada que perder.”
― Anna Todd, Antes de ella

“Through the years, I learned not to focus on the past, but only look toward the future.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“It’s fucked up, really—two people coming together, then falling part. Destroying themselves and everyone around them because they were too selfish and stubborn to get their shit together.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“Suit yourself,” she replies with a groan and childishly pulls her blanket over her head. I laugh and watch her still body, wondering what’s going through her mind. Is this like some method of reverse peekaboo that’s supposed to make me disappear or something?”
― Anna Todd, Before

“My mum’s always giving me a hard time about “making friends,” but she doesn’t get it. It’s not that fucking easy, or remotely entertaining. Why would I put myself out there to get the approval of people I can’t stand, just to feel slightly more important in life? I don’t need friends. I have a small group of people I can slightly tolerate, and that’s more than enough for me.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“What if the whole world exists in a glass case inside some alien child’s bedroom, like an ant farm of sorts?”
― Anna Todd, Before

“Cuando empezó a verla en sueños, le dio miedo. Lo estaba engullendo por completo, centímetro a centímetro, llevándoselo todo. Lo aterrorizaba pensar las cosas que le haría cuando estuviera dentro. No quería consentirlo, pero no tenia fuerzas para resistirse. Siempre se había creído fuerte, el amo y señor de todo, hasta que llego ella y le quito la corona”
― Anna Todd, Antes de ella

“He had always thought of himself as strong. He ruled everything, until she came in and took his crown.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“The moment her lips touched his for the first time, he felt it. He felt a shift somewhere deep inside, somewhere hidden and covered in dust. It was completely untouched since he could remember, likely forever. She awakened him, brought him light and laughter and longing and he knew from the moment her mouth found his, he would never be the same.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“I want to be lost in the world of a novel where the characters have much worse problems than me and make me feel slightly more normal than I am.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“he learned as a child that every lie made in the dark becomes an evil truth in the light.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“preppy dude.”
― Anna Todd, Before