Top 450 Jennifer Niven Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “It’s life. When everything goes to hell around you, the only way to go is forward.”

— 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. “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

155. “It’s only when I’m awake that I think about dying.”

— Jennifer Niven

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

159. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

161. “I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”

— Jennifer Niven

162. “The girl who dropped everything is Violet Markey, the same Violet Markey from the bell tower. She turns beet red and I can tell she wants to die. Not in a jumping-from-a-great-height kind of way, but more along the lines of Please, earth, swallow me whole.”

— Jennifer Niven

163. “Libby Strout.” His mouth and eyes are serious. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him so serious. “You are wanted.”

— Jennifer Niven

164. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

169. “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

170. “Life is too short to judge others. It is not our job to tell someone what they feel or who they are. Why not spend some time on yourself instead? I don’t know you, but I can guarantee you have some issues you can work on.”

— Jennifer Niven

171. “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

172. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

175. “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

176. “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

177. “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

178. “It’s hard to describe, but I imagine the way I am at this moment is a lot like getting sucked into a vortex. Everything dark and churning, but slow churning instead of fast, and this great weight pulling you down, like it’s attached to your feet even if you can’t see it. I think, This is what it must be feel like to be trapped in quicksand.”

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

180. “Which of my feelings are real? Which of the mes is me?”

— Jennifer Niven

181. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

183. “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

184. “Gentlemen are rare. They’re like virgins or leprechauns.”

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

187. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

191. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

193. “You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.”

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

195. “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

196. “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

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

— Jennifer Niven

198. “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?”

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199. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

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200. “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