Quotes from Jennifer Niven

Sorrio pra ela conferir. Tudo em seu devido lugar, pelo menos do lado de fora.

Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!

Yang penting bukan apa yang kauambil, melainkan apa yang kautinggalkan.

Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way!

a 1,257 ft bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

That's the beauty of this world. Right now, that boy right there or that one over there means nothing to me, but soon we will meet and change the world, his and mine.

Theodore FinchI was alive. I burned brightly. And then I died, but not really. Because someone like me cannot, will not, die like everyone else. I linger like the legends of the Blue Hole. I will always be here, in the offerings and people I left behind.

I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars

I like the idea of something that can give you those feelings all the time. I want something like that, and then I look at Violet and think: There she is.

Because it's time I fear.

I can never bring him back, and it might have been my fault. 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.

The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe—I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.

I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me.

Before he died, Cesare Pavese, believer in the Great Manifesto, wrote, "We do not remember days, we remember moments." I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't. I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me.

Brilhais como estrelas no Universo.

Niech wzrok twój w sÅ'oÅ"ce, dech twój w wicher przejdzie...JesteÅ› wszystkimi kolorami jednoczeÅ›nie, w najwiÄ™kszej ich jaskrawoÅ›ci.

It was funny what you could do in twenty-four hours. You could start the day in one place, married to a man you sometimes liked but most of the time didn't, and you could end the next day in another place, far away, a single woman chasing her dreams. I thought there was some kind of miracle in that.

O que percebo agora é que o que importa não é o que a gente leva, mas o que a gente deixa.

Não mais enraizada, mas dourada, fluida. Sinto mil capacidades brotarem em mim.

Alguém gosta de você. Grande, alto, pequeno, baixo, bonito, comum, tímido. Não deixe ninguém dizer o contrário, nem você mesmo. Principalmente você mesmo.

If there was one thing I'd learned, it was that you were responsible for your own ship. You had to look after the engine and make sure the plan was in order and ready to be flown. You were in charge of plotting your course. When you were in the pilot's seat, it was your hand on the throttle, no one else's. If your oil ran out or you lost an engine or the engine caught fire and you had to crash, you were the one saving yourself. No one else could do it for you.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living. (Truman Capote, In Cold Blood)

It feels a lot like the strain of trying to stay awake when I can feel the darkness sliding under my skin, trying to borrow my body without asking so that my hands become its hands, my legs its legs.

I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.