Top 100 Jennifer Niven Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Jennifer Niven

#1. 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.

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#2. 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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#3. I'm always amazed by people and their sleep. I wouldn't ever sleep if I didn't have to.

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#4. If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever. There was nothing to make him last.

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#5. The sun was catching his hair and lighting him up from the outside, and love was lighting him up from the inside.

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#6. We never know how long we have. We're never guaranteed tomorrow. I could die right now, right here.

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#7. We tread water, looking at each other, and suddenly there's not enough water in the world to clean away my dirty thoughts. She

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

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#10. 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.

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#11. Along those lines, accept any and all thoughts (don't be afraid of them no matter what they are).

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#12. But it was a damn good smile. A genuine one, which is hard to come by these days." -Finch

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#13. Are you totally into Violet Markey, like forever kind or the she's-interesting-for-right-now kind?

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#14. You're no hero. You're a coward. You only saved them from yourself.

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#15. Written on the wall behind them was: 'Blues for the body, food for the soul.

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#16. Do I feel I should be punished? Yes. Why else would I have given myself bangs?

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

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#18. For a second, I think he's going to kiss me. For a second, I want him to.

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#19. 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.

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#20. Be careful with that heart of yours

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#21. If only world leaders would get laid well and regularly, the world's problems might disappear.

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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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#25. Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they're not.

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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. 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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#28. I wanted to write something tough, hard, sad, but funny.

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#29. If there's one thing i know, it's that no one can promise anything.

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#30. One of the worst things a pretty girl can say to a fat girl is You look really pretty.

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#31. 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.

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#32. 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.

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#33. I feel a lot of nothing

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

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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. Guys like Ryan Cross have a way of reminding you who you are, even when you don't want to remember.

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#41. 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

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#42. 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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#43. '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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#44. 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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#45. People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

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#46. Maybe because the human body was built to float.

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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. This is what i need, i think. A change of scenery.

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#50. 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.

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#51. You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours?

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#52. I'm sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help." "I feel responsible.

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#53. I want you to know I'm rooting for you.' Sometimes we need to hear that, even from a stranger.

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#54. I'm not ready. These are the three magic words. I've discovered they can get you out of almost anything.

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#55. 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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#56. 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.

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#57. Will you want me just as much when I'm fifteen feet nine inches?

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#58. 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

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#59. I love the world that is my room.

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#60. If anyone can make it to another world, it's Theodore Finch.

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#61. 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

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#62. My hand feels cold without his.

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

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#64. Libby Strout, you deserve to be seen.

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#65. I'd like to live in a world designed by Theodore Finch.

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#66. I'd rather be judged on what I can do instead of who I'm not.

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#67. before i die i want to matter

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#68. 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.

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#69. 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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#70. 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.

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#71. If you're not careful, you're going to run into someone angrier than you.

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#72. 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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#73. And in that moment there's nothing I fear except losing hold of her hand.

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#74. You can't stop living.

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#75. 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.

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#76. 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

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#77. 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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#78. What would I have said to him if I'd known I would never see him again?

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#79. 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.

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#80. 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.

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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. 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.

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#84. I've always been different, but to me different is normal. i decide on a version of the truth.

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#85. Yesterday at this time, I didn't even know her.

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#86. The cadence of suffering has begun - Cesare Pavese

I
am
in
pieces.

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#87. this isn't a season of death but one of living

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#88. Violet Markey.There's more to you than meets the eye.

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#89. 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.

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#90. 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.

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#91. 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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#92. 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 ... ?

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#93. 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.

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#94. 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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#95. 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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