Quotes from Jennifer Niven

I can already feel myself falling hard, something I've been down to do. All because she smiled at me.

It's not your fault. And 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." Not that I'm one to talk.

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.

How could I ever feel anything but lucky that this girl likes me?

It can get kind of nerve-racking when you realise how isolated you are from the actual world here. But all the scary stuff doesn't really compare to getting lost in your own mind.

I am being as honest with myself as possible, which is harder than it sounds. Who wouldn't rather write down pretty things and pretend they are the truth?' "My photos are a way of telling stories but without the pressure of all those words. I used to think of them as a way to capture everything that's good. Everything my life wasn't. but now I take pictures of all of it: the sad, the disturbing, the ugly.

Even if that something blew up in my face, I figure running toward is still better than running away

I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to.

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

By the way? For what it's worth, you showed me something, Ultraviolet— there is such a thing as a Ariana Grande day.

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

You can't always be fine. No one's always fine. And I know you're used to being on your own, and I know I should have been a better friend so that you didn't have to get used to being on your own, but I'm here now, and I wish you'd talk to me

I'm sorry. I love you. But not sorry I love you because I could never be sorry for that.

And I think: Love complicates everything. It makes you hurt and it makes you doubt and it makes you wish you didn't love. It makes you want to be watchful so that nothing bad or surprising ever happens, it makes you never want to love anyone again because they'll only hurt you too.

But here's the thing- even if there aren't any aneurysms in there, these facts won't change: I will still be someone who watches; I will still be someone who is prepared and on the lookout, because at any moment the earth could stop spinning. I've lived through the worst thing that can ever happen to me, and I know firsthand what the world can do.

I forgive everyone and ask forgiveness of everyone

We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary. c)

He kisses me again and leans sexily against the door, as if he knows how good he looks.

I want to get away from the stigma they all clearly feel just because they have a n 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.

I've always been different, but to me different is normal.

Be careful with that heart of yours

Just because they're dead, they don't have to be. And neither do we.

That's how she used to feel before any of this happened – strong and sturdy, like she could withstand a tornado.

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