Top 450 Jennifer Niven Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You saved my life. Why couldn’t I save yours?”

— Jennifer Niven

52. “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. I want to sit down on the dirty, littered ground right now and cry until I can’t cry anymore.”

— Jennifer Niven

53. “You deserve better. I can’t promise you I’ll stay around, not because I don’t want to. It’s hard to explain. I’m a fuckup. 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, not like I want to hurt Roamer. But I can’t promise I won’t pick you apart, piece by piece, until you’re in a thousand pieces, just like me. You should know what you’re getting into before getting involved.”

— Jennifer Niven

54. “You are the most amazing person I’ve ever met. You’re different. You’re you. Always. Who else can say that except maybe Seth Powell, and he’s an idiot. You, Libby Strout, are not an idiot.”

— Jennifer Niven

55. “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.”

— Jennifer Niven

56. “And sometimes I say and do things without thinking. People don’t like that.”

— Jennifer Niven

57. “I think I’ve got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they’re important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something... Let’s go. Let’s count for something. Let’s get off that ledge.”

— Jennifer Niven

58. “Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow. Forever changed. I am forever changed.”

— Jennifer Niven

59. “It’s my experience that the people who are most afraid are the ones who hide behind mean and threatening words.”

— Jennifer Niven

60. “The thing I realize is, that it’s not what you take, it’s what you leave.”

— Jennifer Niven

61. “Worthless. Stupid. These are the words I grew up hearing. They’re the words I try to outrun, because if I let them in, they might stay there and grow and fill me up and in, until the only thing left of me is worthless stupid worthless stupid worthless stupid freak. And then there’s nothing to do but run harder and fill myself with other words...”

— Jennifer Niven

62. “I am broken. I am a fraud. I am impossible to love.”

— Jennifer Niven

63. “I have this feeling, like I’m waiting for something. But I have no idea what.”

— Jennifer Niven

64. “Nunca llegas a entender de verdad a una persona hasta que miras las cosas desde su punto de vista. Hasta que te metes en su piel y te paseas dentro de ella.”

— Jennifer Niven

65. “We can’t fight another person’s battle, no matter how much we want to.”

— Jennifer Niven

66. “I like writing, but I like a lot of things. Maybe out of those things, I’m best at writing. Maybe it’s what I like best of all. Maybe it’s where I’ve always felt most at home. Or maybe the writing part of me is over. Maybe there’s something else I’m supposed to do instead. I don’t know.”

— Jennifer Niven

67. “All I know is what I wonder: Which of my feelings are real? Which of the mes is me? There is only one me I’ve ever really liked, and he was good and awake as long as he could be.”

— Jennifer Niven

68. “My beloved boat is broken on the rocks of daily life. I’ve paid my debts and no longer need to count pains I’ve suffered at the hands of others. The misfortunes and the insults. Good luck to those who remain.”

— Jennifer Niven

69. “I know life well enough to know you can’t count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can’t stop people from dying. You can’t stop them from going away. You can’t stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping.”

— Jennifer Niven

70. “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.”

— Jennifer Niven

71. “You make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love...”

— Jennifer Niven

72. “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, he tightens his grip until I worry my arm will snap off. “And we are not done discussing this.”

— Jennifer Niven

73. “You make me love you, and that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do.”

— Jennifer Niven

74. “Before I die, I want to... be the person I’m meant to be and have that be enough.”

— Jennifer Niven

75. “If a song’s meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones.”

— Jennifer Niven

76. “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.”

— Jennifer Niven

77. “The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”

— Jennifer Niven

78. “If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever.” There was nothing to make him last.”

— Jennifer Niven

79. “It’s okay to laugh you know. The earth is not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. Believe me.”

— Jennifer Niven

80. “The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.”

— Jennifer Niven

81. “And in that moment there’s nothing I fear except losing hold of her hand.”

— Jennifer Niven

82. “The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.”

— Jennifer Niven

83. “We don’t ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.”

— Jennifer Niven

84. “Labels like “bipolar” say This is why you are the way you are. This is who you are. They explain people away as illnesses.”

— Jennifer Niven

85. “People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.”

— Jennifer Niven

86. “It’s all just time filler until we die.”

— Jennifer Niven

87. “Lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often.”

— Jennifer Niven

88. “I am not perfect. I have secrets. I am messy. Not just my bedroom but me. No one likes messy.”

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

90. “It’s not moving on, Libbs. 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.”

— Jennifer Niven

91. “Everyone around you is going to give you a gentle push now and then, but never hard enough because they don’t want to upset Poor Violet. You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you’re going to stay up on the ledge you’ve made for yourself.”

— Jennifer Niven

92. “The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count. Everyone’s so busy waiting in the Waiting Place.”

— Jennifer Niven

93. “Disguise the pain. Don’t call attention. Don’t be noticed.”

— Jennifer Niven

94. “She puts one leg in the car and says, “I guess now you know you’re not the only freak.” It’s the nicest thing she’s ever said to me.”

— Jennifer Niven

95. “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 apologize for.”

— Jennifer Niven

96. “Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they’re not.”

— Jennifer Niven

97. “A lake. A prayer. It’s so lovely to be lovely in Private.”

— Jennifer Niven

98. “Libby Strout, you deserve to be seen.”

— Jennifer Niven

99. “The wall is a place to keep track of thoughts, as fast as they come, and remember them when they go away. Anything interesting or weird or even halfway inspired goes up there.”

— Jennifer Niven

100. “She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.”

— Jennifer Niven