Jennifer Niven quotes:

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.

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 bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

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.

Because its not a lie if its how you feel.

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.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, we'd all be happier.

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

Sometimes you got to just feel, especially when it comes to music. Notes, scales, they just get in the way.

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.

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.

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don't have to do them all at once.

Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground.

No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.

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.

You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.

You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.

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.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.

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.

I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. 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. I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me.

You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.

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.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love....

Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do.

I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought.

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.

Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.