Jennifer Niven Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

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.

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

Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.

I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way.

In case you haven't noticed, we're already involved, Finch. And in case you haven't noticed, I'm broken too.

The only way around it is to stay with one guy forever." But does forever have a built-in ending...?

If a song's meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones.

There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.

I have songs to write and songs to sing and planes to fly and I want to see my old yellow truck again.

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.

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.

I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me. I I

Never bullshit a bullshitter.

I’m sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help.” “I feel responsible.

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

I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom...

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.

She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die.

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.

I run until time stops. Until my mind stops.

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

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.

Were you planning to jump off?"“Not on pizza day. Never on pizza day, which is one of the better days of the week.” I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector.

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?

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

You shouldn't spend all your time worrying about the love that leaves, because then you might overlook the love that was always there.

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.

Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In thewater, I am safe and pulled in where Ican’t get out. Everything slows down—the noise and the racing of my thoughts.

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?

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.

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