Quotes from Jennifer Niven

I think about how amazing it is that you can have someone that close to you, that for the first time you literally aren't alone in your body anymore. Yet somehow you can still feel lonely.

He is angry at the world outside this house, and that makes me love him even more.

b. 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.

As for the rest of you,remember this:YOU ARE WANTED. Big,small,tall,short,pretty,plain,friendly,shy. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, not even yourself. Especially not yourself.

I shut down again. I went blank. One minute I was spinning, and the next minute my mind was dragging itself around in a circle, like an old arthritic dog trying to lie down. And then I just turned off and went to sleep, but not sleep in the way you do every night. Think a long, dark sleep where you don't dream at all.

Estamos todos sozinhos, presos num corpo e na nossa própria cabeça, e qualquer companhia que temos na vida é passageira e superficial.

He smiles at me, and for the first time I notice how blue his eyes are- like, bright-shy blue.

There was nothing to make him last.

Podemos empezar partiendo de algo muy pequeño. Abre un documento nuevo o coge una hoja de papel en blanco. Será nuestro lienzo. Recuerda lo que Miguel Ángel dijo sobre que la escultura estaba en el interior de la piedra, que estaba allí desde un buen principio, y que su trabajo consistía en extraerla. Tus palabras también están ahí.

Affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

I remember him standing next to me at Hoosier Hill, smiling out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he could see Oz. 'Believe it or not, it's actually beautiful to some people..' So I decide to see it through his eyes.

My hand feels cold without his.

There's a chill in the air that feels like winter, or at least the start of it. This is my least-favorite time of year because everything dies or goes to sleep, and there's too much death and stillness, and the sky turns gray for so long, you think it will never be blue again.

You are not alone." Before I can tell him, Actually I am, which is part of the problem; we are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial

My plan was to be the biggest asshole I could be—and I was)

We kiss until my lips are numb, stopping ourselves on the very edge of Someday, saying not yet, not here, even though it takes willpower I didn't know I had. My mind is spinning with him and with the unexpected Almost of today.

Denn es geht nicht um das, was man mitnimmt, sondern um das, was man zurücklässt. (Violet)

but maybe even the smallest places mean something.

I say, 'This is quite a room you have, Josh Raymond,' I am trying to let it bother me because jealousy is a mean, unpleasant feeling that only eats you from the inside, and I do not need to stand here, an almost-eighteen-year-old with a really sexy girlfriend, even if she's not allowed to see me anymore, and worry about the fact that my stepbrother seems to own thousands of Legos.

At lunch, I sit with Charlie, surrounded by people but alone. They are talking to me and around me, but I can't hear them. I pretend to be interested in one of my books, but the words dance on the page, and I tell myself to smile so that no one will see, and I smile and I nod and I do a pretty good job of it.

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.

Do you think there's such a thing as a perfect day? A perfect day. Start to finish. When nothing terrible or sad or ordinary happens. Do you think it's possible?

Because we all have to die someday. I just want to be prepared.

Some people hate him because they think he's weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants. Some people worship him because he's weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants.