Top 450 Jennifer Niven Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.”

— Jennifer Niven

102. “When she looks up again two miles later, she says, “You know what I like about you, Finch? You’re interesting. You’re different. And I can talk to you. Don’t let that go to your head.” The air around us feels charged and electric, like if you were to strike a match, the air, the car, Violet, me – everything might just explode. I keep my eyes on the road. “You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything.”

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

104. “This is the most exciting moment I have ever known. I flutter. I ripple. I stream like a plant in the river, flowing this way, flowing that way, but rooted, so that he may come to me. ‘Come,’ I say, ’come.”

— Jennifer Niven

105. “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

106. “You might expect me to say “life,” having just woken up and all, but it’s only when I’m awake that I think about dying.”

— Jennifer Niven

107. “I can only tell you how I felt. Ugly. disgusting. Stupid. Small. Worthless. Forgotten. It just feels like there’s no choice. Like it’s the most logical thing to do because what else is there? You think, No one will even miss me. They won’t know I’m gone. The world will go on, and it won’t matter that I’m not here. Maybe it’s better if I was never here.”

— Jennifer Niven

108. “We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary.”

— Jennifer Niven

109. “What a terrible feeling to love soemone and not be able to help them.”

— Jennifer Niven

110. “You might not want to burn your bridges when you’re standing on an island.”

— Jennifer Niven

111. “How can something so final happen in an instant? No preparation. No warning. No chance to do all the things you planned to do. No chance to say goodbye.”

— Jennifer Niven

112. “This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary.”

— Jennifer Niven

113. “Violet Markey, I’d like to be your partner on this project.”

— Jennifer Niven

114. “I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom...”

— Jennifer Niven

115. “What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good?”

— Jennifer Niven

116. “I’m not a vain person, but I am human...”

— Jennifer Niven

117. “If you think something is wrong, speak up. You are not alone. It is not your fault. Help is out there.”

— Jennifer Niven

118. “It’s about the important things, like the way their face lights up when they laugh, or the way they move as they’re walking towards you, or the way their freckles create a map of the stars.”

— Jennifer Niven

119. “There was nothing to make him last a long time.”

— Jennifer Niven

120. “She waves her arms at the world. “It’s all just time filler until we die.”

— Jennifer Niven

121. “I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me.”

— Jennifer Niven

122. “On all sides of us, spread out below, are little white lights and black pockets of trees. Stars in the sky, star on the ground. It’s hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. I hate to admit it, but it’s so beautiful. I feel the need to say something grand and poetic, but the only thing I come up with is “It’s lovely.” ” ‘Lovely’ is a lovely word that should be used more often.”

— Jennifer Niven

123. “I’m not ready.” These are the three magic words. I’ve discovered they can get you out of almost anything.”

— Jennifer Niven

124. “The great Anna Faris once said that the secret of surviving high school is to “lay low.”

— Jennifer Niven

125. “She was my best friend.” “I’ve never had one. What’s it like?” “I don’t know. I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means – the best and the worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you’re mad at them, you know they’re not going to stop being your friend.”

— Jennifer Niven

126. “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 easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”

— Jennifer Niven

127. “Maybe. Maybe not. Whether it’s filler or not, I’m pretty glad to be here.” If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that you need to make the most of it. “It mattered enough for you not to jump.”

— Jennifer Niven

128. “Everyone know of him. Some people hate him because they think he’s weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants. Some people worship him because he’s weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants.”

— Jennifer Niven

129. “Just be careful with that heart of yours.”

— Jennifer Niven

130. “But all the scary stuff doesn’t really compare to getting lost in your own mind.”

— Jennifer Niven

131. “In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed himself. He jumped to test his invention – he expected to fly – but instead he fell straight down, hitting the ground like a meteor and leaving a 5.9-inch-deep crater from the impact. Did he mean to kill himself? Doubtful. I think he was just cocky, and also stupid.”

— Jennifer Niven

132. “Across the seat our eyes are holding hands.”

— Jennifer Niven

133. “When we’re in the act of wandering, we need to be present, not watching it through a lens.”

— Jennifer Niven

134. “In that moment, I’m thankful I’m not a parent and I wonder if I ever will be. What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them. Actually, I know exactly how that feels.”

— Jennifer Niven

135. “In that moment, I wish I could see it through his eyes. I wish he had glasses to give me.”

— Jennifer Niven

136. “You can’t always be fine. No one’s always fine. And I know you’re used to being on your own, and I know I should have been a better friend so that you didn’t have to get used to being on your own, but I’m here now, and I wish you’d talk to me.”

— Jennifer Niven

137. “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.”

— Jennifer Niven

138. “Just promise me you won’t be one of those couples that stays together for the children, That only screws people up, including the children.”

— Jennifer Niven

139. “I’ve always been different, but to me different is normal. i decide on a version of the truth.”

— Jennifer Niven

140. “Because it’s not a lie if it’s how you feel.”

— Jennifer Niven

141. “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.”

— Jennifer Niven

142. “The thing suicides don’t focus on is their wake. Not just your parents and siblings, but your friends, your girlfriends, your classmates, your teachers.′ I like the way he seems to think I have many, many people depending on me, including not just one but multiple girlfriends.”

— Jennifer Niven

143. “Before I die I want to have kids. Live in London. Own a pet giraffe. Skydive. Divide by zero. Play the piano. Speak French. Write a book. Travel to a different planet. Be a better dad than mine was. Feel good about myself. Go to New York City. Know equality. Live.”

— Jennifer Niven

144. “I’ve always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes.”

— Jennifer Niven

145. “If you walk away, don’t come back. You don’t get to do that and come back.”

— Jennifer Niven

146. “Theodore Finch leans against an SUV, hands in pockets, like he has all the time in the world and he expects me. I think of the Virginia Woolf lines, the ones from The Waves: “Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is romantic. He is here.”

— Jennifer Niven

147. “Too much of my life feels like this already- trying to recycle something old into something new and better, disguising someone else’s trash as some fresh, shiny thing.”

— Jennifer Niven

148. “I think of something my mom used to say, about how as scary as it is to go after dreams, it’s even scarier not to.”

— Jennifer Niven

149. “I lost my friend to suicide a year before I lost my father to cancer. They were both ill at the same time, and they died within fourteen months of each other, but the reaction to their illnesses and deaths could not have been more different. People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.”

— Jennifer Niven

150. “There’s more to you than meets the eye.”

— Jennifer Niven