Jennifer Niven 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.

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

~ Jennifer Niven

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

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

~ Jennifer Niven

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, we'd all be happier.

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven

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?

~ Jennifer Niven

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.

~ Jennifer Niven

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.

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven

I run until time stops. Until my mind stops.

~ Jennifer Niven

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.

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven

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.

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven

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.

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven

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

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

~ Jennifer Niven

I think about Finch and Sir Patrick Moore and black holes and blue holes and bottomless bodies of water and exploding stars and event horizons, and a place so dark that light can't get out once it's in.

~ Jennifer Niven

In those moments, none of it matters. It’s like that stuff is happening to someone else because all you feel is dark inside, and that darkness just kind of takes over. You don’t even really think about what might happen to the people you leave behind, because all you can think about is yourself.

~ Jennifer Niven

Never bullshit a bullshitter.

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven

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.

~ Jennifer Niven

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.

~ Jennifer Niven

I don't want to tiptoe around her or him or you anymore. The only thing that's doing us making it harder for me to remember her. Sometimes i try to concentrate on her voice just so i can hear her again-The way she always said 'Hey there' when she was in a good mood,An 'Vi-o-let' when she was annoyed.For some reason, these are the easiest ones.I concentrate on them, and when i have them. I hold on to them because i don't ever want to forget how she sounded.Like it or not,She was here and now she's gone.But she doesn't have to be completely gone.

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven

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?

~ Jennifer Niven

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.

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven

Is today a good day to die?Is today the day?And if not today–when?

~ Jennifer Niven

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!

~ Jennifer Niven

May your eye go to the Sun, To the wind your soul... You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.

~ Jennifer Niven

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven

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.

~ Jennifer Niven

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.

~ Jennifer Niven

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.

~ Jennifer Niven