Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places Quotes
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.
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 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.
Besides, I kind of like my face intact like this, two eyes, one nose, one mouth, a full set of teeth, which, if I'm being honest, is one of my better features.
When he smiles like that, there's a single dimple. It was the thing that got me the very first time I saw him.
Stars on the sky, stars on the ground. It's hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins.
You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.
I meant what I said to Embryo about drugs. We don’t mix. What it comes down to for me is I have a hard enough time keeping control over my brain without something else getting in the way.
I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
I think it's early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you're counting, you'll notice the earlys outnumber the lates.
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.
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.
I’m sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help.” “I feel responsible.
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.
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.
She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die.
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.
Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone.
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
I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me. I I
There aren't many people who would say this about me, but the great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.
You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love...
Is today a good day to die?Is today the day?And if not today–when?
May your eye go to the Sun, To the wind your soul... You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.
A string of thoughts run through my head like a song I can't get rid of, over and over in the same order: I am broken. I am a fraud. I am impossible to love.