Quotes from Jennifer Niven

And maybe Finch didn't feel like he had a choice, or maybe he wasn't trying to kill himself at all but just going in search of the bottom. But I'll never really know, will I? Then

You make me happy, Whenever you're around I'm safe inside your smile, You make me handsome, Whenever I feel my nose just seems a bit too round, You make me special, and God knows I've longed to be that kind of guy to have around, You make me love you, And that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do… You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love…

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

So it's good and it's bad and it hurts, but I like thinking about him. If I think about him, he won't be completely gone either. Just because they're dead, they don't have to be. And neither do we.

But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Jupiter are aligned with the earth and i'm floating.

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. Forever changed.

No longer rooted, but gold, flowing. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me.

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

I catch her eyes and she's smiling at me. It's the kind of smile you smile when you're thinking someone over and trying to decide how you feel about them.

Disguise the pain. Don't call attention. Don't be noticed.

Maybe. Or maybe it's a whole other world, one we can't even imagine.

I try to tell it he might have meant "Just be careful when you have sex. Use a condom," but instead, because, you know, it's a brain, and therefore has—is—a mind of its own, it starts thinking of every way in which Violet Markey might break my heart. I

Extenuating Circumstances. That is me. That is Violet Markey. Poor forever-changed Violet and her Extenuating Circumstances.

YOU ARE WANTED. Big, small, tall, short, pretty, plain, friendly, shy. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, not even yourself. Especially not yourself.

impending, weightless doom.

I can feel the apology in his fingers, and this takes the wind out of me, so I lean into him—just a little—and read over his shoulder. His hand is warm and I don't want to stop holding it. We

And wham! Suddenly. Just like that. I'm completely conscious of his guyness next to me.

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." For

If he really loves you, he'll find a way.

It's okay to laugh you know. The earth is not going to split open. You're not going to hell. Believe me.

Often, mental and emotional illnesses go undiagnosed because the person suffering symptoms is too ashamed to speak up, or because their loved ones either fail to or choose not to recognize the signs.

Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do.

I prayed maybe he hadn't seen me after all, that maybe he'd taken off after a sinner or a squirrel, instead.

They're the words I try to outrun, because if I let them in, they might stay there and grown and fill me up and in, until the only thing left of me is worthless stupid worthless stupid worthless stupid freak.