Top 450 Jennifer Niven Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “It’s only when I’m awake that I think about dying.”

— Jennifer Niven

152. “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

153. “I want to lean in and get a whiff of him and rest my head on his shoulder or maybe make out with his neck.”

— Jennifer Niven

154. “It’s the suddenness of life changing in an instant that makes me anxious when I sleep and makes me tell myself to breathe when I’m awake.”

— Jennifer Niven

155. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

157. “It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. Believe me. If there’s a hell, I’ll be there ahead of you, and they’ll be too busy with me to even check you in.”

— Jennifer Niven

158. “But maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us.”

— Jennifer Niven

159. “I thought I could wait, but I can’t. Sorry.”

— Jennifer Niven

160. “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

161. “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. If we stopped to remember that there’s such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, we’d all be happier.”

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

163. “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.”

— Jennifer Niven

164. “The bad news: surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. The good news: the worst is already over.”

— Jennifer Niven

165. “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

166. “I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means-the best and 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

167. “I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It’s growing out of a label that’s hard.”

— Jennifer Niven

168. “I remember being so full of pain and anger that I wished nothing but tongue-burning on everyone who hurt me, especially Moses Hunt. But here’s the thing- Merricat poisoned her entire family. The only crime I committed was being fat.”

— Jennifer Niven

169. “I was alive. I burned brightly. And then I died, but not really. Because someone like me cannot, will not, die like everybody else.”

— Jennifer Niven

170. “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

171. “No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.”

— Jennifer Niven

172. “We never know how long we have. We’re never guaranteed tomorrow. I could die right now, right here.”

— Jennifer Niven

173. “I’d like to live in a world designed by Theodore Finch.”

— Jennifer Niven

174. “I am the best dancer ever. I am a superstar. The shoes are magic. My feet are magic. I am magic.”

— Jennifer Niven

175. “Can go downstairs right now and let my mom know how I’m feeling – if she’s even home – but she’ll tell me to help myself to the Advil in her purse and that I need to relax and stop getting myself worked up, because in this house there’s no such thing as being sick unless you can measure it with a thermometer under the tongue. Things fall into categories of black and white – bad mood, bad temper, loses control, feels sad, feels blue.”

— Jennifer Niven

176. “In those moments, none of it matters. It’s like that stuff is happening to someone else because all you feel is dark inside, and that darkness just kind of takes over. You don’t even really think about what might happen to the people you leave behind, because all you can think about is yourself.”

— Jennifer Niven

177. “I thought of the pieces of me I’d left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left?”

— Jennifer Niven

178. “You are not alone.’... I 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.”

— Jennifer Niven

179. “There’s a built-in ending to everything in the world, right?”

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

181. “But that isn’t why. The why is that none of it matters. Not school, not cheerleading, not boyfriends or friends or parties or creative writing programs or... It’s all just time filler until we die.”

— Jennifer Niven

182. “This is my secret – that any moment I might fly away. Everyone on earth but me – and now Violet – moves in slow motion, like they’re filled with mud. We are faster than all of them.”

— Jennifer Niven

183. “Do whatever it takes to remind myself that I’m still here and have a say.”

— Jennifer Niven

184. “Your identifier is you. I remember your eyes. Your mouth. The freckles on both cheeks that look like constellations. I know your smiles, at least three of them, and at least eight of your expressions, including the ones you only do with your eyes. If I could draw, I would draw you, and I wouldn’t need to look at you to do it. Because your face is stuck in my mind.”

— Jennifer Niven

185. “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 that that and she’s got other elements going on that on one’s ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else.”

— Jennifer Niven

186. “I feel sorry for everyone in this town who’s sleeping.”

— Jennifer Niven

187. “I think what an amazing world this would be if we all danced everywhere we went.”

— Jennifer Niven

188. “Do I feel I should be punished? Yes. Why else would I have given myself bangs?”

— Jennifer Niven

189. “Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around.”

— Jennifer Niven

190. “And then she kisses me. It’s the kind of kiss that makes me lose track of everything, and so it may take hours or minutes by the time we break apart.”

— Jennifer Niven

191. “You need shoving, not pushing.”

— Jennifer Niven

192. “Two broken, lonely people who maybe aren’t so broken or lonely anymore.”

— Jennifer Niven

193. “I want to get away from the stigma they all clearly feel just because they have a n illness of the mind as opposed to, say, an illness of the lungs or blood. I want to get away from all the labels, “I’m OCD,” “I’m depressed,” “I’m a cutter,” they say, like these are the things that define them.”

— Jennifer Niven

194. “This is followed by laughter because we’re in high school, which means we’re predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if it’s someone else’s public humiliation.”

— Jennifer Niven

195. “You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”

— Jennifer Niven

196. “Loss does that, hits you out of the blue. You can be in the car or in class or at the movies, laughing and having a good time, and suddenly it’s as if someone has reached directly into the wound and squeezed with all their might.”

— Jennifer Niven

197. “Not to mention if I don’t pay attention and you decide to go back up there and jump off, I’m looking at a lawsuit, and on the salary they pay me, believe me when I say I do not have the money to be sued.”

— Jennifer Niven

198. “I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase “elegance and euphoria,” and how it describes exactly what I feel with Violet.”

— Jennifer Niven

199. “Because in this house there’s no such thing as being sick unless you can measure it with a thermometer under the tongue.”

— Jennifer Niven

200. “One of the worst things a pretty girl can say to a fat girl is You look really pretty.”

— Jennifer Niven