“I've never fell off a big chimney. You'd only fall off one of them once.”

“You don't know about falling off cliffs, Prep­pie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god­damn life.'

'Yeah,' I said, re­cov­er­ing the power of speech. 'When I met you.”

“Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself”

“If you have loved someone and then fell out of love with them, it is possible to fall back in love with them; but only if they were not the reason you fell out of love with them.”

“For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.”

“It was as easy as falling off a precipice.”

“Life never falls, but never gets out of falling. It is poised in a persistent state of almost-fell.”

“He had a sense that the old man meant to be good-natured and neighbourly; but the kindness fell on him as sunshine falls on the wretched — he had no heart to taste it, and felt that it was very far off him.”

“If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.”

“Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.”