Jennifer Niven Quotes

• 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.

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  Hurt, Laughing, Leaving

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.278, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  Life, Realizing

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.300, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  Different, This Life, Great Things

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  Hurt, People, Sympathetic

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.21, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Mind, Fleeting, Body

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• 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.

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  Sorry, Live Your Life, Waste

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.129, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

  Jennifer Niven

  Steps, One Step At A Time, Just One

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

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  Color, Brightness

  FaceBook post by Jennifer Niven from Jun 29, 2016

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

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  Lovely

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.300, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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

  Cutting, Giving, What If

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.138, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.126, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  People, Problem, Forget

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.129, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Towers, Looks, Bumps

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.89, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  Writing, People, Gone

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.48, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  Magic, Holy

  Jennifer Niven (2009). “Velva Jean Learns to Drive: Book 1 in the Velva Jean series”, p.105, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Running, Flower, Self

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• 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

  Hurt, People, Wish

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

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  Eye, Dust, Feet

  Jennifer Niven (2011). “Velva Jean Learns to Fly: Book 2 in the Velva Jean series”, p.202, Penguin

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

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  Cozy, Bigs, Sat

  Jennifer Niven (2011). “Velva Jean Learns to Fly: Book 2 in the Velva Jean series”, p.40, Penguin

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

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  Spring, Winter, Finches

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.214, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

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  Suicide, Flower, People

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.303, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Jupiter, Floating, Earth

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.234, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Inspiration, Camels, Needs

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.106, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  Eye, Going Away

  Jennifer Niven (2009). “Velva Jean Learns to Drive: Book 1 in the Velva Jean series”, p.367, Penguin

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

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  Math, Creative, Who Cares

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