Quotes from Jennifer Niven

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.

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 apologise for.

Theodore Finch, in search of the Great Manifesto." "I don't know what that means." "It means 'the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation – in short, to remain a memory.

I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought.

I'm afraid they have been eat up by the elements.' Just like all of us.

We can't always see what others don't want us to. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it.

The words we use to surround death are bizarre. Like we're hiding something.

Mom used to say that a picture wasn't worth anything if it didn't produce a reaction, that it takes talent to capture feeling with an image.

Conozco lo suficiente bien la vida como para saber que no puedes contar con que las cosas permanezcan intactas e inmóviles, por mucho que te gustaría que así fuera. No puedes evitar que la gente muera. No puedes evitar que se marchen. Ni si quiera uno mismo puede evitar marcharse. Me conozco lo suficientemente bien como para saber que nadie puede mantenerme despierto o impedirme dormir. Eso también lo llevo dentro. Pero tía, esta chica me gusta.

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

sometimes I think fate conspires against us. Or maybe fate conspires with us.

It's life. When everything goes to hell around you, the only way to go is forward.

Jessamyn West said, 'Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

sometimes you get to a point where it hurts too much, and you'll do anything to get rid of the pain. Even if it means doing something that hurts someone else.

Suddenly I'm having one of those moments that you have after losing someone—when you feel as if you've been kicked in the stomach and all your breath is gone, and you might never get it back.

You know what I like about driving? The forward motion of it, the propulsion of it, like you might go anywhere.

Writing was what I did best, better than being a daughter or girlfriend or sister. Writing was me. But now writing is one of the things I can't do.

She loved the permanence of film, how you couldn't just delete an image and try again.

Every moment is meaningful.

I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me.

I was reminded of how much I love photography. The chance to capture a moment of time, forever.

But you will find your own way to make an impact.

You make your own path.

But in that moment, I don't know what to say. Everything that's wrong with me seems made up because it's not like I can point to any of it and actually show them.