Quotes from Jennifer Niven

Penso bem melhor à noite, quando todo mundo está dormindo. Sem interrupções. Gosto da sensação de estar acordado quando ninguém está.

Everyone goes on with their lives, and maybe I can't keep up. Maybe I don't want to.

I close the doors and yank off my sweater, and she pulls off her shirt, and I say, "You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks." My

Violet es oxígeno, carbono, hidrógeno, nitrógeno, calcio y fósforo. Los seis elementos de los que todos estamos compuestos, aunque no puedo evitar pensar que es algo más que eso, que posee otros elementos de los que nadie ha oído hablar y que la diferencian de todos los demás.

I want to be the girl who can do everything. I want to be the girl who tries out for the MVB Damsels and makes the team.

You are all the colours in one, at full brightness

I think it's early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you're counting, you'll notice the earlys outnumber the lates.

Cesare Pavese, believer in the Great Manifesto, wrote, "We do not remember days, we remember moments.

I used to think that. But then I realized, believe it or not, it's actually beautiful to some people. It must be, because enough people live here, and they can't all think it's ugly.' He smiles out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he can see Oz. As if he can really, truly see the beauty that's there. In that moment I wish I could see it through his eyes. I wish he had glasses to give me.

Me trying to concentrate on college, on life, when all I'm doing is thinking about him.

Eres todos los colores en uno, con su máxima intensidad.

Just like all of us. The Nest Houses have reached their life expectancy. I think of the mud nest we made for the cardinal, all those years ago, and wonder if it's still there. I imagine his little bones in his little grave, and it is the saddest thought in the world.

Ultraviolet Remarkey-able, I think I love you.

The Slow Club is playing,a band I like,all plucky and bitter-sweet and kind of offbeat.Like Finch,I think.Like us.

If I want to carry a purse, I'm going to carry it. I'm not going to not carry it just because they don't like it.

and while it's not the most exciting conversation I've ever had, it is a nice, normal date, with a nice, normal guy, and there's something to be said for that right now.

It's not moving on. It's moving differently. That's all it is. Different life. Different world. Different rules. We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.

I suddenly like his solidness and sense of permanence, as if what you see is what you get, and he will always be and do exactly what you expect him to be and do.

Quais sentimentos são reais? Quais dos meus eus sou eu?

There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. None of us knows how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifteen days, maybe another fifty years- I like living as if I only have that two days.

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

But tonight I'm telling myself I don't have anything in common with this Violet girl, no matter how much I want to, and asking myself if the words between us were really that hot or if maybe it was just me imagining, me in overdrive for a girl I barely know, all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway.

I wonder, if I count backward, whether I can go back and take Violet Markey with me and then move forward with her so we have more time. Because it's time I fear. And me. I'm afraid of me.

Because people my age need somewhere they can go for advice or help or fun or just to be without anyone worrying about them. Somewhere they can be unlimited and fearless and safe, like in their own rooms