Top 450 Jennifer Niven Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I meant what I said to Embryo about drugs. We don’t mix. What it comes down to for me is I have a hard enough time keeping control over my brain without something else getting in the way.”

— Jennifer Niven

252. “The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren’t all bad. Something catches me off guard – a TV show, a funny one-liner from my dad, a comment in class – and I laugh like nothing ever happened.”

— Jennifer Niven

253. “For some reason, I don’t like the way this sounds, as if a universe could exist in which I wouldn’t know Finch.”

— Jennifer Niven

254. “I want her to say my name because then I’ll know it’s okay and I haven’t just lost her forever. But she doesn’t, and I can feel a cold, dark feeling growing in the pit of my stomach – every bit as cold and dark as the water.”

— Jennifer Niven

255. “Be the person I’m meant to be and have that be enough.”

— Jennifer Niven

256. “You know what? Why don’t we just forget it? Why don’t I go by myself? I think I’d rather go alone anyway.”

— Jennifer Niven

257. “If you try to carry everything around all the time, pretty soon you end up flat on your back in bed, too big to get up or even turn over.”

— Jennifer Niven

258. “But in that moment, I don’t know what to say. Everything that’s wrong with me seems made up because it’s not like I can point to any of it and actually show them.”

— Jennifer Niven

259. “Your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.”

— Jennifer Niven

260. “He’s the kind of Finch who would stand on a building and think about jumping just because nothing scares him. He is seriously badass.”

— Jennifer Niven

261. “Because I’m sitting next to you on this swing and you’re beautiful.”

— Jennifer Niven

262. “I didn’t know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way.”

— Jennifer Niven

263. “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

264. “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

265. “Violet says, ‘Are you okay now?’ Her hair is windblow and her cheeks are flushed. Whather she likes it or not, she seemes happy. I take a good long look at her.”

— Jennifer Niven

266. “Maybe even the smallest places mean something.”

— Jennifer Niven

267. “As he talks, I lie back against the ground, the blanket wrapped around me, and say to the sky, “May your eye go to the Sun, To the wind your soul, You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”

— Jennifer Niven

268. “Before I die I want to have kids. Live in London... Write a book... Feel good about myself... Live... Play guitar like Jimmy Page. Come up with a song that will change the world. Find the Great Manifesto. Count for something. Be the person I’m meant to be and have that be enough... Matter... Stop being afraid. Stop thinking too much. Fill the holes left behind. Drive... Write. Breathe... Before I die I want to know a perfect day.”

— Jennifer Niven

269. “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

270. “No time like the present, and all that. You of all people should know we’re only guaranteed right now.”

— Jennifer Niven

271. “I want you to remember that you can’t feel responsible for everything. We’re your parents, and we will figure us out. All you need to do – any of you” – she looks at my brothers – ” is be a kid for now and let us be there for you.”“All of us?” Dusty says. “Even those of us without neurological disorders?” “All of you.”

— Jennifer Niven

272. “We can’t always see what others don’t want us to. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it” -Mr. Embry.”

— Jennifer Niven

273. “Overdrive for a girl I barely know, all because she’s the first person I’ve met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway.”

— Jennifer Niven

274. “I was here. TF.”

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275. “Every forty seconds, someone is left behind to cope with the loss.”

— Jennifer Niven

276. “I take her hand under the gray-blue sky and I’m home.”

— Jennifer Niven

277. “I know the way you move. I know the way you look at me. I see you see me, and you’re the only one who looks at me that way. Whether I’m with you or away from you, I don’t have to think about it or put the puzzle pieces together. It’s just you. That’s what I know.”

— Jennifer Niven

278. “By the time we’re done, their guests have gathered outside to see the boy who must have flowers to give to the girl he loves.”

— Jennifer Niven

279. “It’s easier just to do the right thing from the start so there’s nothing to apologize for.”

— Jennifer Niven

280. “Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people’s words, not my own – my words are gone.”

— Jennifer Niven

281. “Like everything else that doesn’t last, today is gone now, but it was a pretty good day.”

— Jennifer Niven

282. “I’d rather be judged on what I can do instead of who I’m not.”

— Jennifer Niven

283. “Extenuating Circumstances. That is me. That is Violet Markey. Poor forever-changed Violet and her Extenuating Circumstances.”

— Jennifer Niven

284. “If I was designing a home for Libby Strout, it would be exceptional. It would be one of a kind. It would be bright red with a tin roof, at least two stories, possibly more, a state-of-the-art art weather station, and lots of turrets. Also a tower, but not one to lock her in. It would be a place where she could sit and look out over and beyond the town, as far as the horizon, maybe even past it.”

— Jennifer Niven

285. “I have a section for New Nameless Web Magazine.”

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286. “Don’t you want to know where I’d go if I could?” Not really, I think. “Where would you go if you could go anywhere?” It comes out bitchier than I mean for it to. He leans forward over the handlebars, eyes on me. “I’d go to Hoosier Hill with a beautiful girl.” A.”

— Jennifer Niven

287. “Sometimes all I did all day was just wander around in my mind.”

— Jennifer Niven

288. “Finch scribbles something and slaps it to the wall. Welcome. He scribbles something else. Freak. He shows it to me before destroying it. He writes Belong, which goes on the wall, and Label, which doesn’t. Warmth, Saturday, Wander, You, Best friend go up, while Cold, Sunday, Stand still, Everyone else go into the heap.”

— Jennifer Niven

289. “Or we can make out.”

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290. “On my bed, I sit down and flip through the cut-up books one by one, reading all the cut-up passages.”

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291. “Better to keep the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words separate, where you can watch them and make sure they don’t surprise you when you’re not expecting them.”

— Jennifer Niven

292. “I think about Finch and Sir Patrick Moore and black holes and blue holes and bottomless bodies of water and exploding stars and event horizons, and a place so dark that light can’t get out once it’s in.”

— Jennifer Niven

293. “Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can’t get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts.”

— Jennifer Niven

294. “Except that only small people- the inside-small kind- don’t like you to be big.”

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295. “And wham! Suddenly. Just like that. I’m completely conscious of his guyness next to me.”

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296. “I punch on the radio, but all I get is country music and static, and I don’t know which is worse.”

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297. “But it was a damn good smile. A genuine one, which is hard to come by these days.” -Finch.”

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298. “I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector. So brilliant that I could get a full scholarship to college and major in it, except why bother? I’ve already mastered the art.”

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299. “As tough as she is, she wants to believe in something.”

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300. “In case you haven’t noticed, we’re already involved, Finch. And in case you haven’t noticed, I’m broken too.”

— Jennifer Niven