Top 450 Jennifer Niven Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m broken, and no one can fix it. I’ve tried. I’m still trying. I can’t love anyone because it’s not fair to anyone who loves me back. I’ll never hurt you... But I can’t promise I won’t pick you apart, piece by piece, until you’re in a thousand pieces just like me.”

— Jennifer Niven

2. “I want you to know I’m rooting for you.′ Sometimes we need to hear that, even from a stranger.”

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3. “I forgive everyone and ask forgiveness of everyone.”

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4. “This time will be different. This time, I will stay awake.”

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5. “Sometimes in the darkest places, we find the brightest light.”

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6. “You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”

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7. “There are bright places, even in dark times. And if there isn’t, you can be that bright place with infinite capacities.”

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8. “I am disappearing, maybe I’m already gone.”

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9. “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?”

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10. “The fact is, I was sick, but not in an easily explained flu kind of way. It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other recognizable disease just to make it simple for me and also for them. Anything would be better than the truth.”

— Jennifer Niven

11. “Better to be the hunter than the hunted. Even if you’re hunting yourself.”

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12. “I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I’ve cried a few times, but mostly I’m empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.”

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13. “I can feel the worries fading away. I’m relaxed and happy – happier than I’ve been in a while. I am in the moment. I am here.”

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14. “For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I’m already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself.”

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15. “There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.”

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16. “May your eye go to the Sun, to the Wind your soul... You are all the colours in one, at full brightness.”

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17. “I’m still here, and I’m grateful, because otherwise I would be missing this. Sometimes it’s good to be awake.”

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18. “We’re all weird and damaged in our own way. You’re not the only one.”

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19. “You don’t know how it is. It’s like I’ve got this angry little person inside me, and I can feel him trying to get out. He’s running out of room because he’s growing bigger and bigger, and so he starts rising up, into my lungs, chest, throat, and I just push him right back down. I don’t want him to come out. I can’t let him out.”

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20. “I think of my own epitaph, still to be written, and all the places I’ll wander. No longer rooted, but gold, flowing. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me.” -Violet.”

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21. “You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything.”

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22. “Everyone in my life is a stranger, and that includes me.”

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23. “For what it’s worth, you showed me something, Ultraviolet – there is such a thing as a perfect day.”

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24. “I love the world that is my room. It’s nicer in here than out there, because in here I’m whatever I want to be.”

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25. “There are different ways to die. There’s jumping off a roof and there’s slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.”

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26. “Every forty seconds, someone in the world dies by suicide. Every forty seconds, someone is left behind to cope with the loss.”

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27. “She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can’t help thinking she’s more than that and she’s got other elements going on that no one’s ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else. I feel this brief panic as I think, What would happen if one of those elements malfunctioned or just stopped working altogether? I make myself push this aside and concentrate on the feel of her skin until I no longer see molecules but Violet.”

— Jennifer Niven

28. “Dear friend, You are not a freak. You are wanted. You are necessary. You are the only you there is. Don’t be afraid to leave the castle. It’s a great big world out there. Love, a fellow reader.”

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29. “This is what happens when people die. They start to disappear if you don’t watch it. Not all at once, but a piece here, a piece there.”

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30. “But 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.” In a minute, she says, “You’re so weird, Finch. But that’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me.”

— Jennifer Niven

31. “Is today a good day to die?”

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32. “Sometimes there’s beauty in the harsh words – it’s all about how you read them.”

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33. “And for a long time I look at myself in the bathroom mirror, and I actually disappear before my eyes. I am disappearing. Maybe I’m already gone.”

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34. “Everything is going to be okay. You are going to be okay. You may already be okay.”

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35. “I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it.”

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36. “The thing is, they were all perfect days.”

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37. “I love the world that is my room.”

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38. “I’ve always been different, but to me different is normal.”

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39. “We all have a shelf life.”

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40. “But 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.”

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41. “People either see me or they don’t.”

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42. “Gentlemen are rare. They’re like virgins or leprechauns. If I ever get married, I’m going to marry one.”

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43. “I’m sorry. I love you. But not sorry I love you because I could never be sorry for that.”

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44. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway.”

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45. “You are a survivor, and as that unwelcome designation implies, your survival – your emotional survival – will depend on how well you learn to cope with your tragedy. The bad new: Surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. The good news: The worst is already over.”

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46. “Suicide victim’ is an interesting term. The victim part of it implies they had no choice. And maybe Finch didn’t feel like he had a choice...”

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47. “You are wanted. You are necessary. You are loved.”

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

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49. “I’m sure you’ve read For Whom The Bell Tolls. Well, Robert Jordan knows he’s going to die. ‘There is only now,’ he says, ‘and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.’ None of us know how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifty years – I like living as if I have that two days.”

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50. “You make your own path.”

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