Top 100 Jennifer Niven Quotes
#2. And in that moment there's nothing I fear except losing hold of her hand.
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#3. 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
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#4. 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
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#5. 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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#7. I'm still here, and I'm grateful, because otherwise I would be missing this. Sometimes it's good to be awake.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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.
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#16. The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
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#17. But it was a damn good smile. A genuine one, which is hard to come by these days." -Finch
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#18. Along those lines, accept any and all thoughts (don't be afraid of them no matter what they are).
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#19. 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.
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#20. I'm always amazed by people and their sleep. I wouldn't ever sleep if I didn't have to.
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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.
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#23. 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
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#24. '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 ...
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#25. 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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#26. Like everything else that doesn't last, today is gone now, but it was a pretty good day.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. So what makes you angry?'
'Stupid people. Fake people. Mean people. Death. I worry about dying all the time. Like, all the time.
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#30. You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love. ...
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#32. 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.
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#33. Who cares for Algebra?
Who delights in solving math?
I only want to live my life
Along the creative path.
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#34. Velva Jean, sometimes dreams change, either because they have to or because life has something else in mind for you.
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#35. He says, " 'Lovely' is a lovely word that should be used more often.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. I'm five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov.
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#39. The Slow Club is playing,a band I like,all plucky and bitter-sweet and kind of offbeat.Like Finch,I think.Like us.
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#40. 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
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#41. He leans forward over the handlebars, eyes on me. I'd go to Hoosier Hill with a beautiful girl.
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#43. Maybe it isn't the room that's different. Maybe it's me.
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#44. Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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.
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#49. No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.
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#51. The bad moments always have a way of coming around again, way too soon.
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#52. You made me feel gold,flowing too.I love you.Ultraviolet Remarkey-able.
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#55. I feel the way his hand,warm and firm,fits around mine.He may keep changing,but that never does.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. Like most people in the Midwest, Embryo doesn't believe in humor, especially when it pertains to sensitive subjects.
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#59. It's the kind of smile you smile when you're thinking someone over and trying to decide how you feel about them.
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#60. If there was one thing I hated in this world, it was folks who told you that you couldn't do something.
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#62. We're all weird and damaged in our own way. You're not the only one.
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#66. Sometimes you got to just feel, especially when it comes to music. Notes, scales, they just get in the way.
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#67. He kisses me again and leans sexily against the door, as if he knows how good he looks.
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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.
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#70. These kids who never did anything to anyone except be born with different brains and different wiring,
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#71. 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!
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#72. 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
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#73. 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.
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#74. Im used to slowing down so that everyone else can catch up
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#75. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.
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#76. A lake. A prayer. It's so lovely to be lovely in Private -Finch
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#77. 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.
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#78. The happy times went away for a while, but they're coming back
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#79. With face blindness, I seem to constantly lose the people I love.
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#80. 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.
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#81. 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.
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#82. 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.
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#83. I forgive everyone and ask forgiveness of everyone
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#84. 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.
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#85. Except that only small people- the inside-small kind- don't like you to be big.
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#87. 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?
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#88. There's a built-in ending to everything in the world, right?
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#89. You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.
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#90. 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.
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#91. 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.
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#92. We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.
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#94. 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,
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#95. I have this feeling like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what
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#97. 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.
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#98. Better to be the hunter than the hunted. Even if you're hunting yourself.
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#99. 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?
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#100. I am the best dancer ever. I am a superstar. The shoes are magic. My feet are magic. I am magic.
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