Top 450 Jennifer Niven Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me. I I.”

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

103. “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

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

107. “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

108. “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

109. “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

110. “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

111. “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

112. “With face blindness, I seem to constantly lose the people I love.”

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

115. “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

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

— 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. “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

119. “I’m a fuckup. I’m broken, and no one can fix it.”

— Jennifer Niven

120. “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

121. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

123. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

125. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

129. “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

130. “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

131. “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

132. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

136. “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

137. “We tread water, looking at each other, and suddenly there’s not enough water in the world to clean away my dirt thoughts.”

— Jennifer Niven

138. “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

139. “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

140. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

142. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

146. “Let’s go. Let’s count for something. Let’s get off that ledge.”

— Jennifer Niven

147. “A string of thoughts run through my head like a song I can’t get rid of, over and over in the same order: I am broken. I am a fraud. I am impossible to love.”

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

150. “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