Top 450 Jennifer Niven Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Jennifer Niven

52. “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.”

— Jennifer Niven

53. “You make your own path.”

— Jennifer Niven

54. “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...”

— Jennifer Niven

55. “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.”

— Jennifer Niven

56. “And I think: Love complicates everything. It makes you hurt and it makes you doubt and it makes you wish you didn’t love. It makes you want to be watchful so that nothing bad or surprising ever happens, it makes you never want to love anyone again because they’ll only hurt you too.”

— Jennifer Niven

57. “But you will find your own way to make an impact.”

— Jennifer Niven

58. “The words we use to surround death are bizarre. Like we’re hiding something.”

— Jennifer Niven

59. “Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation – in short, to remain a memory.”

— Jennifer Niven

60. “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

61. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

63. “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

64. “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

65. “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

66. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

69. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

71. “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

72. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

75. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

77. “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

78. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

81. “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

82. “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

83. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

87. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

96. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

98. “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

99. “This is what i need, i think. A change of scenery.”

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

— Jennifer Niven