The best Quotes from Before I Fall

The best Quotes from Before I Fall

Before I Fall is a 2010 young adult novel written by the American author Lauren Oliver. The novel is written in the first-person perspective of a teenage girl, Samantha Kingston, who is forced to relive the day of her death every day for a week. In an effort to understand why that happens to her, Samantha undertakes new actions each day, some of which are out of character and surprise her family and friends.

But I didn't know any of that, until right before I fell.
Samantha
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For some of us, there's only today. And what you do today matters. In the moment. And maybe into infinity. I see only my greatest hits. I see the things I want to remember, and being remembered for. That's when I realize that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over, they still go on. They are the meaning.
Samantha
2
Maybe for you there's a tomorrow, maybe for you there is 1000, or 3000, or 10, but for some of us there is only today. And what you do today matters. At the moment. And maybe into infinity. I See online my greatest hits. I see the I wann remember and remembered for. That's when I realize that certain moments go on forever. Even after there over, they still go on.
Samantha Kingston

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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
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The beauty of a moment, is that it's fleeting.
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I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.
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I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived.
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Dear Karen,
if you're reading this, it means I actually worked up the courage to mail it. So, good for me. You don't know me very well, but if you get me started, I have a tendency to go on and on about how hard the writing is for me. But this... this is the hardest thing I've ever had to write.

There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just say it. I met someone. It was an accident. I wasn't looking for it. I wasn't on the make. It was a perfect storm. She said one thing. I said another. Next thing I knew, I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation.

Now there's this feeling in my gut. She might be the one. She's completely nuts in a way that makes me smile. A great deal of maintenance required. She is you, Karen. That's the good news. The bad is that I don't know how to be with you right now. And that scares the shit out of me. Because if I'm not with you right now, I have this feeling we'll get lost out there. It's a big, bad world full of twists and turns and people have a way of blinking and missing the moment... the moment that could've changed everything.

I don't know what's going on with us and I can't tell you why you should waste a leap of faith on the likes of me... but, damn, you smell good, like home. And you make excellent coffee. That's got to count for something, right?

Call me.

Unfaithfully yours,
Hank Moody
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The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don't celebrate those, they can pass you by.
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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery - today is a gift - that's why we call it present!
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The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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I wish I could stay in this moment forever. But then it wouldn't be a moment.
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Time is like a river, you cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of life!
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Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
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Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.
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I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.
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We might not have months or years, but we have moments. Thousands upon thousands of them. Let's take each moment, seize it and wring it dry.
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I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments.
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No day but today!
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You will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
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"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."
There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.
The number of places in paradise is limited; only in hell is entry open to all.
Do you know the parable about the frog in the cream? Two frogs landed in a pail of cream. One, thinking rationally, understood straight away that there was no point in resistance and that you can't deceive destiny. But then what if there's an afterlife – why bother jumping around, entertaining false hopes in vain? He crossed his legs and sank to the bottom. The second, the fool, was probably an atheist. And she started to flop around. It would seem that she had no reason to flail about if everything was predestined. But she flopped around and flopped around anyway . . . Meanwhile, the cream turned to butter. And she crawled out. We honour the memory of this second frog's friend, eternally damned for the sake of progress and rational thought.
There are some things that you don't want to do and you pledge to yourself that you won't do, you forbid yourself, and then suddenly they happen all by themselves. You don't even have time to think about them, and they don't make it to the cognitive centres of the brain: they just happen and that's it, and you're left just watching yourself with surprise, and convincing yourself that it wasn't your fault, it just happened all by itself.
The same species can't remain dominant forever. Humanity can't be the only ones to survive extinction. Do you think the ammonites and the dinosaurs resisted extinction like we do? Of course not! They graciously accepted their destinies. They weren't just unintelligent enough to avoid it. Humanity goes around recording and sharing our past to help us predict our future, and because of that we just assume that we can change our destiny. That we can overcome something like the Death Stranding. But it's all lies. This world doesn't need us anymore. It's trying to evict us to make room for the next species. And the harder we try and the harder we struggle against it, the more we sully it. Being holed up in here, I bet you have no idea how beautiful the outside world is, do you? How harsh it is? The world didn't change into what it is now for mankind's sake. It's trying to change for the life that comes next.
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But life changes people. It smothers that kind of larger-than-life woman. Time quiets them down. That firecracker girl you knew in high school - where is she now? It didn't happen to men as much. Those boys often grew up to be masters of the universe. The super successful girls? They seemed to die of slow societal suffocation.
Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.
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