Quotes from Jennifer Niven

I punch on the radio, but all I get is country music and static, and I don't know which is worse.

Worthless. Stupid. These are the words I grew up hearing. They're the words I try to outrun, because if I let them in, they might stay there and grow and fill me up and in, until the only thing left of me is worthless stupid.

Escrever. (...) Ao longo das linhas, aceitar todo e qualquer pensamento (não tenha medo deles, independente do que sejam).

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. Think about it. Loved ones don't die. You don't age. You go to bed and wake up the next morning to find everything just as you left it. No surprises.

It's easy to give everyone what they want. What's expected. The problem with doing this is you lose sight of where you truly begin and where the fake you, the one who tries to be everything to everyone, ends.

Nisandan beri içimde hep ayn? his vard?; sanki bir ÅŸeyi bekliyordum. Ama beklediÄŸim ÅŸeyin ne olduÄŸuna dair hiçbir fikrim yoktu.

Come back. I love you. I'm sorry.

See, I excel at other, more important things—guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few.

has happened with Finch. In that moment, I'm thankful I'm not a parent and I wonder if I ever will be. What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them. Actually, I know exactly how that feels. *

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

One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard. Which

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

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.

Você foi, sob todos os aspectos, tudo o que alguém poderia ser... Se existisse alguém capaz de me salvar, seria você

It's the suddenness of life changing in an instant that makes me anxious when I sleep and makes me tell myself to breathe when I'm awake.

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

We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one

Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow.

You might not want to burn your bridges when you're standing on an island.

I take a good long look at her. 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. You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop them from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either.

Ao que parece, crescer trinta e cinco centímetros é fácil, o difícil é conseguir crescer para além de um rótulo.

People are shitty for a lot of reasons. Sometimes they're just shitty people. Sometimes people have been shitty to them and, even though they don't realize it, they take that shitty upbringing and go out into the world and treat others the same way. Sometimes they're shitty because they're afraid. Sometimes they choose to be shitty to others before others can be shitty to them. So it's like self-defensive shittiness.

You can't stop living

The air is full of things we aren't saying, and I wonder if he feels it too.