Quotes about fall page 7
David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest (1996)
Context: These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light—the soul’s certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.
“You're not falling for me, are you, Irish?"
-Adam to Gabrielle”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: The Immortal Highlander
Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
“I was walking through the leaves Falling from the trees.
Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Mississippi
“To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.”
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Variant: You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off.
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous red head.”
Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman
Variant: Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
“Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.”
Mary Engelbreit (1952) American illustrator
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“Somebody sees me, and I see myself through them. Then it’s all gone, the whole world falls apart.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
Source: The Separate Notebooks
“There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.”
Carson McCullers (1917–1967) American writer
Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
Sarah Vowell book Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Source: Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
“Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
“As the rain falls
so does
your love
bathe every
open
object of the world”
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet
“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.”
André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“She never stumbles,
she's got no place to fall.
She's nobody's child,
the law can't touch her at all.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.”
Francois Rabelais (1494–1553) major French Renaissance writer
“The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.”
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Variant: The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“If I must fall, may it be from a high place.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“The sensation of falling was the worst part.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Source: City of Bones
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
Karen Chance book Touch the Dark
Source: Touch the Dark
“And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: The Awakening
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“Note to self:
Do not under any circumstances fall in love again.”
Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie
Source: Where Rainbows End
“To love--to fall--is not a question.
To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
George Berkeley (1685–1753) Anglo-Irish philosopher
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer
Source: This is Where I Leave You
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“I didn’t mean to fall in love with you, but I did.
- Chelsea”
Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer
Source: Nothing But Trouble
Anne Tyler book Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Francine Rivers (1947) American writer
Source: Redeeming Love
