Why Do We Fall Quotes Novels & Stories

I heard stifled laughter behind me and I wanted the ground to swallow me. “Falling like a piece of paper when you actually look like a bag of potatoes should be a legal offence, in fact it's an offense henceforth. I don't want you damaging and causing an earthquake every time you fall.” I sat up on the floor staring at my fingers as they fumble around each other, he took a long stride past me and I could hear murmuring from the table.

“The tree fell because this branch gave out.” I nodded. “Exactly. It wasn’t the wind, or the storm, or even time that brought it down. It was this one branch. The weight was too much, the strain too great, and when it snapped, the whole tree collapsed.” Kael’s expression grew thoughtful. He understood I wasn’t just talking about the tree. “Sometimes,” I continued, “we think we’re strong enough to carry everything on our own. But we don’t realize that one weak link, one moment of imbalance, can bring everything crashing down.”

“Keep going, we’re getting to your part.” “Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” I take a breath and look at Tara. We are both crying. “Don’t stop. We need the full quote,” Tara said.

Her eyes went crimson as the pain flooded over her. She realized she had to flee from him as quickly as possible. Her instincts shouted for safety, pushing her to keep a safe distance from him. She noticed that the lift was not moving when she looked at the floor number. “Why…. why is this lift not moving”

I keep expecting to come crashing down onto a surface, but there’s nothing. Let me be clear; there’s no surface I’d want to crash onto. Well, maybe one made of marshmallows or a really soft mattress would be good. OMG! Perhaps falling has made me crazy because I swear I sound crazy right now. I sound like I’ve literally lost my fucking mind.

"Don't do something so stupid again." "I can't promise that, but do you know how it feels like to jump down from the 101st floor?"

What if my knee gives out. What if I fall. What if I try and prove everyone right - that I'm finished, that I'm broken, that the girl who fell at Nationals is all I'll ever be now. What if the ice is the last remaining thing I had and I step onto it and it's gone too, dissolved like everything else I thought was solid. The questions circle like vultures.

"Tell me what I can do to help, please?" "I wish I know the answer to that..." I told him as I kept chewing my bottom lip. He cupped my face and tried to wipe the tears away, but they kept falling. "Remember when we were younger — every time we sprint, and you lose? I kept telling you that every fall, every wrong turn, makes you braver and wiser. They will let you know what to do next time. This is also true in real life. We will fall and break, but we must always get back up. Not for anyone but ourselves. So, we can cross the finish line and live the lives we deserve."

You make not falling for you harder. ****

Because somehow I know deep inside, what his words could do to my fragile heart and my messed up mind. “Elizabeth, you’re priceless.” They said it’s not the fall that kills; it’s the abrupt halt at the end. And dammit, I don’t know what to do. •••