All The Bright Places Quotes

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

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

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

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 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

Never bullshit a bullshitter.

~ Jennifer Niven

I like writing, but I like a lot of things. Maybe out of those things, I'm best at writing. Maybe it's what I like best of all. Maybe it's where I've always felt most at home. Or maybe the writing part of me is over. Maybe there's something else I'm supposed to do instead. I don't know.

~ Jennifer Niven

I'm not a vain person, but I am human...

~ Jennifer Niven

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.

~ Jennifer Niven

The Parents, as my mother and father refer to Mr. Finch and Mrs. Finch, are insisting it was an accident, which, I guess, means we're free to mourn him out in the open in a normal, healthy, unstigmatised way. No need to be ashamed or embarrassed since suicide isn't involved.

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven

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

~ Jennifer Niven