Explore the most impactful and insightful quotes and sayings by Jennifer Niven, and enrich your perspective with the wisdom. Share these inspiring Jennifer Niven quotes pictures with your friends on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, completely free. Here are the top 364 Jennifer Niven quotes for you to read and share.

Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000005526
me - everything might just explode. I keep my eyes on the road. "You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything." "But I thought you didn't like me." And then I look at her. She raises an eyebrow at me. I -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000012372
Besides,in that instant we went plowing through the guardrail, my words died too. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000014922
Maybe it's better that she's locked away from the rest of the world. Maybe she's not cut out to live like other people with other people. Maybe she belongs in that house forever. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000025598
I hate you.
If only I'd known.
If only I'd been enough .
I let you down.
I wish I could have done something.
I should have done something.
Was it my fault?
Why wasn't I enough?
Come back.
I love you.
I'm sorry. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000031690
You make me love you,
And that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do ... -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000032879
I'm five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000039297
The thing suicides don't focus on is their wake. Not just your parents and siblings, but your friends, your girlfriends, your classmates, your teachers.' I like the way he seems to think I have many, many people depending on me, including not just one but multiple girlfriends. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000039925
Worthless. Stupid. These are the words I grew up hearing. They're the words I try to outrun, because if I let them in, until the only thing left of me is worthless stupid worthless stupid worthless stupid freak. And then there's nothing to do but run harder and fill myself with other words ... -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000045037
set her glasses down on her dresser. "Thanks for the loan," I say. "But they make my head hurt. And they're ugly." I can almost hear her laughing. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000045723
The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000055989
There's no rush of having survived, only emptiness, and lungs that need air, and wet hair sticking to my face. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000056004
I open my eyes and sit straight up , gasping, filling my lungs. I'm happy no one's here to see me, because I'm sputtering and splashing and coughing up water. There's no rush of having survived, only emptiness, and lungs that need air, and wet sticking hair to my face -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000061211
But that isn't why. The why is that none of it matters. Not school, not cheerleading, not boyfriends or friends or parties or creative writing programs or ... " She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000065440
Now, if you asked him what he was going to do with himself, he'd tell you he guessed he might do anything he set his mind to. But he'd say it in a far-off way, as if he didn't really mean it or care much at all. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000068108
I want to say It's okay to be a person. We're all afraid. We all get hurt. It's okay to hurt. You'd be so much more likable if you just acted human. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000088775
Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren't born for small! You don't know how to do small! Small is not in you! -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000092429
He smiles at me, and for the first time I notice how blue his eyes are- like, bright-shy blue. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000092658
And for a long time I look at myself in the bathroom mirror, and I actually disappear before my eyes. I am disappearing. Maybe I'm already gone. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000110351
I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000134050
You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for. Not that I'm one to talk. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000138676
When it's my turn, I introduce myself as Josh Raymond, seventeen, no previous experience beyond my recent halfhearted experiment with sleeping pills. "The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is life," I add, even though no one knows what this means -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000148757
My father not only broke her heart, he pretty much shat all over her pride and self-worth. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000151009
The Parents, as my mother and father refer to Mr. Finch and Mrs. Finch, are insisting it was an accident, which, I guess, means we're free to mourn him out in the open in a normal, healthy, unstigmatised way. No need to be ashamed or embarrassed since suicide isn't involved. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000171307
Before I die I want to have kids. Live in London. Own a pet giraffe. Skydive. Divide by zero. Play the piano. Speak French. Write a book. Travel to a different planet. Be a better dad than mine was. Feel good about myself. Go to New York City. Know equality. Live. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000175577
This is my secret - that at any moment I might fly away. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000179661
Don't you want to know where I'd go if I could?" Not really, I think. "Where would you go if you could go anywhere?" It comes out bitchier than I mean for it to. He leans forward over the handlebars, eyes on me. "I'd go to Hoosier Hill with a beautiful girl." A -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000181491
He's the kind of Finch who would stand on a building and think about jumping just because nothing scares him. He is seriously badass. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000181758
I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000190930
The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000191163
Because in this house there's no such thing as being sick unless you can measure it with a thermometer -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000192484
I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000196834
As I dial 9-1-1, I think: He's not nowhere. He's not dead. He just found that other world. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000197616
I meant what I said to Embryo about drugs. We don't mix. What it comes down to for me is I have a hard enough time keeping control over my brain without something else getting in the way. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000213855
Besides, I kind of like my face intact like this, two eyes, one nose, one mouth, a full set of teeth, which, if I'm being honest, is one of my better features. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000227920
Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation - in short, to remain a memory. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000228294
I remember him standing next to me at Hoosier Hill, smiling out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he could see Oz. 'Believe it or not, it's actually beautiful to some people..' So I decide to see it through his eyes. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000242095
In those moments, none of it matters. It's like that stuff is happening to someone else because all you feel is dark inside, and that darkness just kind of takes over. You don't even really think about what might happen to the people you leave behind, because all you can think about is yourself. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000247981
This time I join him, and our voices drift together across the sleeping town. When -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000249950
I have this feeling like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000258758
I can feel the apology in his fingers, and this takes the wind out of me, so I lean into him - just a little - and read over his shoulder. His hand is warm and I don't want to stop holding it. We -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000268401
Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they're not. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000291062
For some reason, I don't like the way this sounds, as if a universe could exist in which I wouldn't know Finch. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000293540
What would I have said to him if I'd known I would never see him again? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000296445
My mouth is an inch from hers, and I wait for her to slap me or push me away, but then she closes her eyes, and that's when I know - I'm in. Okay -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000300436
I'm broken, and no one can fix it. I've tried. I'm still trying. I can't love anyone because it's not fair to anyone who loves me back. I'll never hurt you ... But I can't promise I won't pick you apart, piece by piece, until you're in a thousand pieces just like me. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000305488
Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000318127
I wonder if this is the way it will be next year if I come to New York, or wherever I go - me trying to concentrate on college, on life, when all I'm doing is thinking about him. I wonder if he'll come with me, or if our built-in ending is high school. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000319594
I'd like to live in a world designed by Theodore Finch. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000334916
The thing I need most in this world is a long, hot shower, but what I get instead is a trickle of warm water followed by a blast of Icelandic cold -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000340577
Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000347650
Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000350447
It's okay to laugh, you know. The earth's not going to split open. You're not going to hell. Believe me. If there's a hell, I'll be there ahead of you, and they'll be too busy with me to even check you in. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000353467
So what makes you angry?'
'Stupid people. Fake people. Mean people. Death. I worry about dying all the time. Like, all the time. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000354255
She and I have gotten to be kind of friendly, and that's making me very, very happy. Like stupidly happy. Like so-happy-my-friends-can't-stand-to-be-around-me happy. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000374429
It's true, after all, at least compared to him, and actually what he means is that I have bad luck with women. Something about going for the bitchy ones or the crazy ones or the ones who pretend not to know me when other people are around. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000383296
His hand is firm and warm, and somehow, big as it is, it fits with mine. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000392952
I want to get away from the stigma they all clearly feel just because they have an illness of the mind as opposed to, say, an illness of the lungs or blood. I want to get away from all the labels. "I'm OCD," "I'm depressed," "I'm a cutter," they say, like these are the things that define them. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000411223
Everyone in my life is a stranger, and that includes me. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000414298
Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000416720
You dress to please yourself. If she doesn't like you for you, then you don't need her.' All of this would be fine if I knew exactly who me for me was. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000418398
I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means-the best and worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you're mad at them, you know they're not going to stop being your friend. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000418879
I can already feel myself falling hard, something I've been known to do. All because she smiled at me. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000421019
I'm trying out Theodore Finche, '80s kid, and seeing how he fits.
I fish through my desk for a cigarette, stick it in my mouth, and remember as I'm reaching for my lighter that Theodore Finch, '80s kid, doesn't smoke. God, I hate him, the clean-cut, eager little prick. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000425556
Did you kids have fun?" she asks, and we know she's hoping we'll beg for permission to never go there again. Decca -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000429821
We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000429862
He leans forward over the handlebars, eyes on me. I'd go to Hoosier Hill with a beautiful girl. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000432940
It's just to talk. Nothing more. It's not like I'm hitting on you. Finch: Unless you want me to. Hit on you, I mean. Me: No. Finch: "No" you don't want me to come over? Or "no" you don't want me hitting on you? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000436150
There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. None of us knows how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifty years -I like living as if I only have two days -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000436381
All this time, I thought it was her weight that made me see her.

But it's not her weight at all.

It's her. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000453053
By the time we're done, their guests have gathered outside to see the boy who must have flowers to give to the girl he loves. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000458657
But it was a damn good smile. A genuine one, which is hard to come by these days." -Finch -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000461010
The air is full of things we aren't saying, and I wonder if he feels it too. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000472541
We tread water, looking at each other, and suddenly there's not enough water in the world to clean away my dirty thoughts. She -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000475506
Instead, I pull out my wallet and hand Mrs. Carnes a twenty, which is the smallest I have, and she counts off the books. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000478200
There is only now,' he says, 'and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000483405
I'm not ready. These are the three magic words. I've discovered they can get you out of almost anything. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000489320
He says, " 'Lovely' is a lovely word that should be used more often. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000499002
Get out there and see your state. Go to museums and parks and historic sites. Get yourselves some culture so that when you do leave you can take it. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000502003
And even though the ache of that heartbreak hurts like hell, it's so much better than feeling nothing. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000513575
Across the seat our eyes are holding hands. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000529043
You know what I like about you, Finch? You're interesting. You're different. And I can talk to you. Don't let that go to your head."
... "You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000533207
elegance and euphoria -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000539611
You can't always be fine. No one's always fine. And I know you're used to being on your own, and I know I should have been a better friend so that you didn't have to get used to being on your own, but I'm here now, and I wish you'd talk to me. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000541261
I skim through our notebook, thick with words, and then through our Facebook messages - so many now - and then I write a new one, quoting Virginia Woolf: Let us wander whirling to the gilt chairs. ... Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here ... ? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000554558
There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000560192
Violet Markey, I'd like to be your partner on this project. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000560193
Never bullshit a bullshitter. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000560197
You make me happy...
You make me special...
You make me lovely... -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000560199
You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000560202
I try to tell it he might have meant "Just be careful when you have sex. Use a condom," but instead, because, you know, it's a brain, and therefore has - is - a mind of its own, it starts thinking of every way in which Violet Markey might break my heart. I -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000560203
Extenuating Circumstances. That is me. That is Violet Markey. Poor forever-changed Violet and her Extenuating Circumstances. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000560204
In case you haven't noticed, we're already involved, Finch. And in case you haven't noticed, I'm broken too. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000560205
Are you totally into Violet Markey, like forever kind or the she's-interesting-for-right-now kind? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000560206
Violet Markey.There's more to you than meets the eye. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000563636
I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom ... -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000567980
What were you doing up on that ledge?" It comes out a whisper.

"The same thing you were. I wanted to see what it was like. I wanted to imagine jumping off it. I wanted to leave all the shit behind. But when I did start to imagine it, I didn't like what it looked like. And then I saw you. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000569801
Suddenly I'm having one of those moments that you have after losing someone - when you feel as if you've been kicked in the stomach and all your breath is gone, and you might never get it back. I want to sit down on the dirty, littered ground right now and cry until I can't cry anymore. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000570436
And then I go up to my room, climb onto a chair, and contemplate the mechanics of hanging. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000583365
Just be careful implies that there's an end to it all, maybe in an hour, maybe in three years, but an end just the same. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000583603
You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000584731
I've always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000593571
Like everything else that doesn't last, today is gone now, but it was a pretty good day. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000597379
Gentlemen are rare. They're like virgins or leprechauns. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000607382
We can't fight another person's battle, no matter how much we want to. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000612987
I am carried off. We yield to this slow flood ... In and out, we are swept; ... we can not step outside its sinuous, its hesitating, its abrupt, its perfectly encircling walls. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000618754
The only way around it is to stay with one guy forever. But does forever have a built-in ending ... ? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000619046
The wall is a place to keep track of thoughts, as fast as they come, and remember them when they go away. Anything interesting or weird or even halfway inspired goes up there. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000619106
My beloved boat is broken on the rocks of daily life. I've paid my debts and no longer need to count pains I've suffered at the hands of others. The misfortunes and the insults. Good luck to those who remain. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000625284
Guys like Ryan Cross have a way of reminding you who you are, even when you don't want to remember. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000626045
There's a chill in the air that feels like winter, or at least the start of it. This is my least-favorite time of year because everything dies or goes to sleep, and there's too much death and stillness, and the sky turns gray for so long, you think it will never be blue again. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000630323
Dear friend, You are not a freak. You are wanted. You are necessary. You are the only you there is. Don't be afraid to leave the castle. It's a great big world out there. Love, a fellow reader -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000643884
And in that moment there's nothing I fear except losing hold of her hand. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000649738
But come to think of it, after a lifetime of feeling too much, maybe there's actually something to be said for fast and sudden. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000650898
This is my secret
that any moment I might fly away. Everyone on earth but me
and now Violet
moves in slow motion, like they're filled with mud. We are faster than all of them. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000653300
I am broken. I am fraud. I am impossible to love. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000666200
Drive anywhere and everywhere, even when there's nowhere to go. (Note: There's always somewhere to go.) -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000669895
Positive ones go on the wall, negative on the floor over there. He points to this heap of paper. It's important to get those down but they don't need to stick around after you do -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000673913
Her eyes are warm, but her mouth is sad. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000687561
This is what happens when people die. They start to disappear if you don't watch it. Not all at once, but a piece here, a piece there. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000687568
The thing I can't, won't, mention to him is that I see Finch everywhere - in the hallways at school, on the street, in my neighborhood. Someone's face will remind me of him, or someone's walk or someone's laugh. It's like being surrounded by a thousand different Finches. I wonder if this is normal, -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000695018
You shouldn't spend all your time worrying about the love that leaves, because then you might overlook the love that was always there. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000697693
This is the single loveliest thing anyone's ever done for me. It's movie lovely. It feels somehow epic and fragile, and I wand the night to last forever, and knowing it can't already has me sad. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000698573
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000700715
Violet says, 'Are you okay now?' Her hair is windblow and her cheeks are flushed. Whather she likes it or not, she seemes happy. I take a good long look at her. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000702435
I love the world that is my room. It's nicer in here than out there, because in here I'm whatever I want to be ... I am fearless. I am free. I am safe. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000703035
Everyone know of him. Some people hate him because they think he's weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants. Some people worship him because he's weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000704549
I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector. So brilliant that I could get a full scholarship to college and major in it, except why bother? I've already mastered the art. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000708687
I am broken and no one can fix it -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000708688
I am broken. I am a fraud. I am impossible to love. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000720405
I'd rather be judged on what I can do instead of who I'm not. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000751532
Writing was what I did best, better than being a daughter or girlfriend or sister. Writing was me. But now writing is one of the things I can't do. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000758513
You made me feel gold,flowing too.I love you.Ultraviolet Remarkey-able. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000767501
All I know is what I wonder: Which of my feelings are real? Which of the mes is me? There is only one me I've ever really liked, and he was good and awake as long as he could be. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000768226
This is followed by laughter because we're in high school, which means we're predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if it's someone else's public humiliation. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000783608
One entire wall is covered in pictures and Post-it notes and napkins and torn pieces of paper. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000787625
I know there's more in there, probably years of shit you've been smiling away and keeping down. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000789022
It is 3:38 a.m., and the time of night when my mind starts running around all wild and out of control, like my cat, George, when he was a kitten. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000790746
The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000794755
Actually,standing next to you makes it feel as high as Everest. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000794759
At least it feels that way standing here with you." He closes his blue eyes and breathes in. When he opens them again, he says, "Actually, standing next to you makes it feel as high as Everest." I -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000794760
I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000796561
Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It's hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. I feel the need to say something grand and poetic, but the only thing I come up with is It's lovely. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000798797
You are the most amazing person I've ever met. You're different. You're you. Always. Who else can say that except maybe Seth Powell, and he's an idiot. You, Libby Strout, are not an idiot. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000802756
I think about [ ... ] black holes and blue holes and bottomless bodies of water and exploding stars and event horizons, and a place so dark that light can't get out once it's in -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000804315
The cadence of suffering has begun - Cesare Pavese

I
am
in
pieces. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000812907
I love the world that is my room. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000814805
You have been in every way all that anyone could be. ... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000816392
In that moment, I'm thankful I'm not a parent and I wonder if I ever will be. What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000816941
Like most people in the Midwest, Embryo doesn't believe in humor, especially when it pertains to sensitive subjects. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000821486
Do I feel I should be punished? Yes. Why else would I have given myself bangs? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000822402
He smiles out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he can see Oz. As if he can really, truly, see the beauty that's there. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000822716
When you're looking back, you can't look forward. And sometimes you run smack into something and hit your head. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000828588
There are different ways to die. There's jumping off a roof and there's slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000830324
It's the kind of smile you smile when you're thinking someone over and trying to decide how you feel about them. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000835254
I'm not a vain person, but I am human... -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000847191
Tell her what she wants to hear.
But I don't because suddenly I can't do it anymore. She's exhausting and I'm exhausting, and we're exhausting. I've been telling her what she wants to hear for the past four years. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000857412
Sometimes in the darkest places, we find the brightest light. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000861689
On my bed, I sit down and flip through the cut-up books one by one, reading all the cut-up passages. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000864720
I try to concentrate on the words, on the melody, but then she starts searching through songs, and this feels like my brain - fragments of words, fragments of melodies, fragments of moments, fragments of things. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000867271
Is today a good day to die? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000875672
We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000887173
And then, because I'm now the one thinking too much, and because she is different from all other girls and because I really, really don't want to screw this up, I concentrate on kissing her on the banks of the Blue Hole, in the sunshine, and I let that be enough. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000898493
I feel homesick for this London I left behind. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000909780
You're actually not a bad guy, Jack Masselin. But I'm not sure you know it yet. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000910690
I'm sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help." "I feel responsible. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000917397
I'm broken, and no one can fix it. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000919549
You are a survivor, and as that unwelcome designation implies, your survival - your emotional survival - will depend on how well you learn to cope with your tragedy. The bad new: Surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. The good news: The worst is already over. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000926414
You're probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone's better at math than I am, but it's okay, I'm fine with it. See, I excel at other, more important things - guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000948355
Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000956479
I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000963161
I can barely hear her because I am trapped in my mind and body, shivering and afraid. I suddenly feel like I have face blindness because no one looks familiar or nice, and my eyes are flying all over the gym, searching for help. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000965376
Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000966819
I've learned the hard way that the best thing to do is say nothing about what you're really thinking. If you say nothing, they'll assume you're thinking nothing, only what you let them see. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000975056
I thought I could wait, but I can't. Sorry. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000979579
At times such as this, it becomes more important for art to survive. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000982441
Im used to slowing down so that everyone else can catch up -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 000988877
Sometimes there's beauty in the tough words - it's all in how you read them. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001008080
I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don't have to do them all at once. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001008451
I like writing, but I like a lot of things. Maybe out of those things, I'm best at writing. Maybe it's what I like best of all. Maybe it's where I've always felt most at home. Or maybe the writing part of me is over. Maybe there's something else I'm supposed to do instead. I don't know. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001013247
I close the doors and yank off my sweater, and she pulls off her shirt, and I say, "You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks." My -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001013251
You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001014195
Theodore Finch, April 3. Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away! -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001021056
Sometimes all I did all day was just wander around in my mind. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001033823
The thing about eating is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. I feel the same way about sleeping. Complete wastes of time. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001041327
You can't stop living. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001052292
the smile of a man who has a new wife and a new son and a new house and two new cars and who only has to put up with his old, original kids for another hour or two. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001055451
You know what? Why don't we just forget it? Why don't I go by myself? I think I'd rather go alone anyway. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001062623
The thing is, they were all perfect days. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001065238
If you're not careful, you're going to run into someone angrier than you. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001069182
I can feel the worries fading away. I'm relaxed and happy - happier than I've been in a while. I am in the moment. I am here. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001082481
On all sides of us, spread out below, are little white lights and black pockets of trees. Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It's hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. I hate to admit it, but it's beautiful. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001093973
Along those lines, accept any and all thoughts (don't be afraid of them no matter what they are). -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001097829
He throws his arms out over his head, fists clenched, and shouts: 'Open your eyes and look at me! I'm right bloody here!' He shouts all the things he hates and wants to change until his voice is hoarse. Then he nods over at me. 'Your turn. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001098301
People can be great, but they can also be lousy. I am often lousy. But not completely lousy. You, Libby Strout, are great. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001114430
He is angry at the world outside this house, and that makes me love him even more. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001126794
I don't know what brings you up here, but to me the town looks prettier and the people look nicer and even the worst of them look almost kind. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001127274
Too much of my life feels like this already- trying to recycle something old into something new and better, disguising someone else's trash as some fresh, shiny thing. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001139497
I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001149823
Sometimes you got to just feel, especially when it comes to music. Notes, scales, they just get in the way. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001150007
Will you want me just as much when I'm fifteen feet nine inches? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001159811
You might expect me to say "life," having just woken up and all, but it's only when I'm awake that I think about dying. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001166429
He kisses me again and leans sexily against the door, as if he knows how good he looks. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001169903
I know the way you move. I know the way you look at me. I see you see me, and you're the only one who looks at me that way. Whether I'm with you or away from you, I don't have to think about it or put the puzzle pieces together. It's just you. That's what I know. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001178786
Before I die I want to count for something. Be the person I'm meant to be and have that be enough. Know what it's like to have a best friend. Matter. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001180925
The happy times went away for a while, but they're coming back -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001181978
As for the rest of you, remember this: YOU ARE WANTED. Big, small, tall, short, pretty, plain, friendly, shy. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, not even yourself. Especially yourself. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001181990
Libby Strout." His mouth and eyes are serious. I don't think I've ever seen him so serious. "You are wanted. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001181992
No one can lock you back in, Libby. You choose whether you let them. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001181996
Libby Strout, you deserve to be seen. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001185162
The sun was catching his hair and lighting him up from the outside, and love was lighting him up from the inside. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001197126
Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow. Forever changed. I am forever changed. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001199689
We all have a shelf life. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001200594
Even monkeys recognize each other -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001214271
I run for miles but don't count them, passing dark house after dark house. I feel sorry for everyone in this town who's sleeping. I -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001218637
What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001218829
Maybe. Maybe not. Whether it's filler or not, I'm pretty glad to be here." If there's anything I've learned, it's that you need to make the most of it. "It mattered enough for you not to jump. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001223463
Better to keep the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words separate, where you can watch them and make sure they don't surprise you when you're not expecting them -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001226678
I run until time stops. Until my mind stops. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001241665
We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001247274
Never bullshit a bullshiter -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001248099
Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001255700
My mama's purpose had been to love and to be loved. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001257396
For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001257528
I remember being so full of pain and anger that I wished nothing but tongue-burning on everyone who hurt me, especially Moses Hunt. But here's the thing- Merricat poisoned her entire family. The only crime I committed was being fat. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001269365
But if a human was to avoid all life-threatening diseases and infections and accidents, he - or she - should live to be a hundred and fifteen. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001270519
You need shoving, not pushing. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001276424
This is what i need, i think. A change of scenery. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001281906
I feel the way his hand,warm and firm,fits around mine.He may keep changing,but that never does. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001285454
What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.
Actually, I know exactly how that feels. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001285817
We never know how long we have. We're never guaranteed tomorrow. I could die right now, right here. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001300028
People either see me or they don't. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001302576
Last night is like a puzzle - only not put together: all the pieces are scattered everywhere and some are missing. I wish my heart wouldn't beat so fast. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001302670
Written on the wall behind them was: 'Blues for the body, food for the soul. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001320497
Theodore Finch - I was alive.I burned brightly.And then I died,but not really.Because someone like me cannot,will not,die like everyone else.I linger like the legends of the Blue Hole.I will always be here,in the offerings and people I left behind. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001322938
How can something so final happen in an instant? No preparation. No warning. No chance to do all the things you planned to do. No chance to say goodbye. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001324321
Maybe because the human body was built to float. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001325105
I think of my own epitaph, still to be written, and all the places I'll wander. No longer rooted, but gold, flowing. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. -Violet -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001332898
Ultraviolet Remarkey-able,I think I love you. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001333305
And then she kisses me. It's the kind of kiss that makes me lose track of everything, and so it may take hours or minutes by the time we break apart. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001341672
What a terrible feeling to love soemone and not be able to help them. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001342696
I want you to know I'm rooting for you.' Sometimes we need to hear that, even from a stranger. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001346007
Come on. Let me have it. Don't disappear in there.' I mean inside herself, where I'll never get to her. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001351862
He writes Before I die I want to and draws a line. He writes it again. Then he writes it a dozen more times. After we fill these up, we can keep going on the front of the building and down the other side. It's a good way to figure out just why we're here. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001352556
I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me. I I -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001360821
If you try to carry everything around all the time, pretty soon you end up flat on your back in bed, too big to get up or even turn over. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001361133
Labels like "bipolar" say This is why you are the way you are. This is who you are. They explain people away as illnesses. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001368930
'suicide victim' is an interesting term. The victim part of it implies they had no choice. And maybe Finch didn't feel like he had a choice ... -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001370551
I try not feel jealous of the fact that he's been checking in with them but not me. After all, they're his family. I'm only me, the most important person in his life, for a while at least. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001371512
It's the suddenness of life changing in an instant that makes me anxious when I sleep and makes me tell myself to breathe when I'm awake. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379900
I'm always amazed by people and their sleep. I wouldn't ever sleep if I didn't have to. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379901
If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever. There was nothing to make him last. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379902
I think of something my mom used to say, about how as scary as it is to go after dreams, it's even scarier not to. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379903
You're no hero. You're a coward. You only saved them from yourself. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379904
The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379905
For a second, I think he's going to kiss me. For a second, I want him to. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379906
Be careful with that heart of yours -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379907
If only world leaders would get laid well and regularly, the world's problems might disappear. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379908
I wanted to write something tough, hard, sad, but funny. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379909
If there's one thing i know, it's that no one can promise anything. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379910
One of the worst things a pretty girl can say to a fat girl is You look really pretty. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379911
He mutters something that sounds like and probably is fat whore. It doesn't matter that I'm a virgin. I should have had sex a thousand times by now for all the boys who've been calling me this since fifth grade. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379912
I feel a lot of nothing -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379913
You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love. ... -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379914
People rarely bring flowers to a suicide. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379915
If anyone can make it to another world, it's Theodore Finch. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379916
I like to think that the colors and sounds and words have nothing to do with him, that they're all me and my own brilliant, complicated, buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, godlike brain" -Finch -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379917
My hand feels cold without his. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379918
before i die i want to matter -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379919
I've always been different, but to me different is normal. i decide on a version of the truth. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379920
Yesterday at this time, I didn't even know her. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379921
this isn't a season of death but one of living -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379922
But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I'm floating. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001379923
I'm still here, and I'm grateful, because otherwise I would be missing this. Sometimes it's good to be awake. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001392495
Violet smiles back.Immediately,I feel better,because she feels better and because of the way she smiles at me,as if I'm not something to be avoided. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001405562
There was nothing to make him last a long time. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001416825
Every book I read and every movies I watched seems to give out the same message: high school is the worst experience you can ever have. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001423363
Loss does that, hits you out of the blue. You can be in the car or in class or at the movies, laughing and having a good time, and suddenly it's as if someone has reached directly into the wound and squeezed with all their might. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001423368
I have songs to write and songs to sing and planes to fly and I want to see my old yellow truck again. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001426064
And wham! Suddenly. Just like that. I'm completely conscious of his guyness next to me. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001428688
What would happen if one of those elements malfunctioned or just stopped working altogether? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001440936
Over my desk, I've got this enormous bulletin board, and on it I've tacked black-and-white photographs of writers at work. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001445145
This is what I know about loss. It doesn't get better. You just get (somewhat) used to it. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001458028
I can't think of anything more depressing than to be an Egyptian high priest on display next to a set of vintage wagon wheels and a two-headed chicken. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001465971
It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001466593
It is a new year....It is time to get...back on the camel"
-Mr.Black -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001466601
It's about the important things, like the way their face lights up when they laugh, or the way they move as they're walking towards you, or the way their freckles create a map of the stars. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001472530
For what it's worth, you showed me something, Ultraviolet - there is such a thing as a perfect day. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001472640
If he really loves you, he'll find a way. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001485907
If you think something is wrong, speak up. You are not alone. It is not your fault. Help is out there. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001495585
You are all the colors in one, at full brightness. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001498156
Maybe even the smallest places mean something. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001499094
The bad moments always have a way of coming around again, way too soon. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001508813
I wish my heart wouldn't beat so fast. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001517492
Every forty seconds, someone is left behind to cope with the loss. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001523257
Overdrive for a girl I barely know, all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001526801
I am the best dancer ever. I am a superstar. The shoes are magic. My feet are magic. I am magic. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001535443
You are all the colours in one, at full brightness. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001548656
But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001548899
Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own
my words are gone. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001563865
The Slow Club is playing,a band I like,all plucky and bitter-sweet and kind of offbeat.Like Finch,I think.Like us. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001564068
I think what an amazing world this would be if we all danced everywhere we went. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001566766
it's time I fear. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001567445
Before I die, I want to...be the person I'm meant to be and have that be enough. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001568071
And maybe Finch didn't feel like he had a choice, or maybe he wasn't trying to kill himself at all but just going in search of the bottom. But I'll never really know, will I? Then -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001573228
If you walk away, don't come back. You don't get to do that and come back. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001594289
You make me love you... -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001596079
By the way? For what it's worth, you showed me something, Ultraviolet - there is such a thing as a Ariana Grande day. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001598718
Just be careful with that heart of yours. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001613585
Ut maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001617447
But not sorry I love you because I could never be sorry for that. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001625405
We're all weird and damaged in our own way. You're not the only one. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001627456
I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001632677
Apparently, I'm tragic and dangerous. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001634103
As tough as she is, she wants to believe in something. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001634988
Write (this includes any thoughts I don't want to have - write them out fast so they're out of me and on the paper). -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001642445
For the most part, the people are the same. Everyone wants something to believe in. Everyone wants someone to love. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001646126
He either doesn't hear me or isn't listening -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001650360
Before I die I want to . -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001651630
A lake. A prayer. It's so lovely to be lovely in Private -Finch -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001652289
There's a built-in ending to everything in the world, right? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001659655
These kids who never did anything to anyone except be born with different brains and different wiring, -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001689229
They're the words I try to outrun, because if I let them in, they might stay there and grown and fill me up and in, until the only thing left of me is worthless stupid worthless stupid worthless stupid freak. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001690911
I do it so it feels real. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001693709
You know, that's what you've been doing in a way--coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001701916
Have you ever done something you regretted?'
'Does last year's school picture counts? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001703472
I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001714019
The thing about sleeping is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. Complete waste of time -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001718531
Except that only small people- the inside-small kind- don't like you to be big. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001723647
Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001730770
Me: It's late.
Finch: That depends on who you ask. See, I don't necessarily think it's late. I think early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you're counting, you'll notice the earlys outnumber the lates. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001740722
Maybe it isn't the room that's different. Maybe it's me. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001754065
If a song's meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001761500
I'm a fuckup. I'm broken, and no one can fix it. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001763091
Growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001766212
The last wandering -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001774984
When we're in the act of wandering, we need to be present, not watching though a lens. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001783901
If there was one thing I hated in this world, it was folks who told you that you couldn't do something. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001787753
Jealousy is a mean, unpleasant feeling that only eats you from the inside, -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001795476
No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001796121
With face blindness, I seem to constantly lose the people I love. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001797505
Better to be the hunter than the hunted. Even if you're hunting yourself. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001800528
Do whatever it takes to remind myself that I'm still here and have a say. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001801848
This time will be different. This time, I will stay awake. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001802598
In that moment, I wish I could see it through his eyes. I wish he had glasses to give me. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001804616
She puts one leg in the car and says, "I guess now you know you're not the only freak." It's the nicest thing she's ever said to me. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001813674
It's strange seeing his eyes in someone else's face -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001820676
I feel sorry for everyone in this town who's sleeping. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001820720
There was nothing to make him last. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001827239
Me: How can I want you then when I don't want you now? -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001832469
Ladies and gentlemen," I shout, "I would like to welcome you to my death! -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001832982
I mean, I know but I don't. I've always been different, but to me different is normal. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001834800
One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard. Which -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001836853
People like Theodore Finch don't die.He's just wandering. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001840660
Believe it or not, it's actually beautiful to some people. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001840827
Even when we weren't wandering, even from the floor of your closet, you showed the world to me. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001846426
I forgive everyone and ask forgiveness of everyone -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001849925
Velva Jean, sometimes dreams change, either because they have to or because life has something else in mind for you. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001852079
Who cares for Algebra?
Who delights in solving math?
I only want to live my life
Along the creative path. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001855953
I will always be here, in the offering and people I left behind. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001859124
I am on the highest branch.
We are written in paint.
I believe in signs.
The glow of Ultraviolet.
A lake. A prayer. It's so lovely to be lovely in Private. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001866444
I prayed maybe he hadn't seen me after all, that maybe he'd taken off after a sinner or a squirrel, instead. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001871076
Or we can make out. -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001874264
We can't always see what others don't want us to. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it -Mr. Embry -- Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven Quotes : pic 001879089
Disguise the pain. Don't call attention. Don't be noticed. -- Jennifer Niven