“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Summary
On an average day, have you ever wished you could just start the day all over to do things differently? The main character from the book Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver, did not necessarily wish for that to happen, but it did. Samantha Kingston had it all, popular friends, a good looking boyfriend, and an all-around good life. But she has done things that have affected people in very negative ways, she comes to find out. She was a very mean egotistical girl, and is very shallow. One day when her and her friends were on their way home from a party, her friend who was driving crashed the car. Sam “died” but she still got to relive her last day over and over again. The day was exactly the same every time she woke up, February 12. The same events happened each day, but she got the opportunity to change her actions and see how it affected other people’s lives around her. She finally got to put all the events together and found out the story behind her death, and what really happened. She started learning very important life lessons, as well, and realized what she was doing wrong in her life, though it was too late to change things now. Sam was just glad she got to pass away knowing, in her mind, she made things right. She was able to see who her real friends are, and the importance of living your life to the fullest because you never know when it could end.