Top 450 Jennifer Niven Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “People can be great, but they can also be lousy. I am often lousy. But not completely lousy. You, Libby Strout, are great.”

— Jennifer Niven

302. “Before I Die I Want To Know A Perfect Day.”

— Jennifer Niven

303. “If I keep ahead of everything, and that includes me, I should be able to stay awake and here, and not just semi-here but here as in present as in now.”

— Jennifer Niven

304. “On Tuesday, I say to hell with it and meet her outside every one of her classes so I can walk her to the next. This sometimes means running from one end of the building to the other, but it’s worth every step.”

— Jennifer Niven

305. “I remember him standing next to me at Hoosier Hill, smiling out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he could see Oz. ‘Believe it or not, it’s actually beautiful to some people... ’ So I decide to see it through his eyes.”

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306. “Let’s talk about the SAT. You got a 2280.”

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307. “Her eyes are warm, but her mouth is sad.”

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308. “But come to think of it, after a lifetime of feeling too much, maybe there’s actually something to be said for fast and sudden.”

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309. “As she rattles on, about Violet, about Gemma Sterling, about the Bartlett Dirt, I don’t say anything else. I suddenly don’t want Bren or Charlie to talk about Violet, because I want to keep her to myself, like the Christmas I was eight – back when Christmases were still good – and got my first guitar, which I named No Trespassing, as in no one could touch it but me.”

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310. “This is the single loveliest thing anyone’s ever done for me. It’s movie lovely. It feels somehow epic and fragile, and I wand the night to last forever, and knowing it can’t already has me sad.”

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311. “So I make up song after song. Most nights, these are Songs That Will Change the World because they are that good and that deep and that damn amazing.”

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312. “I mean, I know but I don’t. I’ve always been different, but to me different is normal.”

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313. “He leans forward over the handlebars, eyes on me. “I’d go to Hoosier Hill with a beautiful girl.”

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314. “I am universal.”

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315. “Sometimes feel true to us even if they are not.”

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316. “As I dial 9-1-1, I think: He’s not nowhere. He’s not dead. He just found that other world.”

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317. “Writing was what I did best, better than being a daughter or girlfriend or sister. Writing was me. But now writing is one of the things I can’t do.”

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318. “Me: How can I want you then when I don’t want you now?”

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319. “At least it feels that way standing here with you.” He closes his blue eyes and breathes in. When he opens them again, he says, “Actually, standing next to you makes it feel as high as Everest.” I.”

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320. “I try not feel jealous of the fact that he’s been checking in with them but not me. After all, they’re his family. I’m only me, the most important person in his life, for a while at least.”

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321. “And maybe Finch didn’t feel like he had a choice, or maybe he wasn’t trying to kill himself at all but just going in search of the bottom. But I’ll never really know, will I? Then.”

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322. “I’ve learned the hard way that the best thing to do is say nothing about what you’re really thinking. If you say nothing, they’ll assume you’re thinking nothing, only what you let them see.”

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323. “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.”

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324. “Will you want me just as much when I’m fifteen feet nine inches?”

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325. “You’re actually not a bad guy, Jack Masselin. But I’m not sure you know it yet.”

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326. “I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me.”

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327. “People can be great, but they can also be lousy. I am often lousy.”

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328. “Maybe because the human body was built to float.”

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329. “I can’t love anyone because it’s not fair to anyone who loves me back.”

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330. “You make me love you...”

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331. “I will always be here, in the offering and people I left behind.”

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332. “Even monkeys recognize each other.”

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333. “Am I ready to hear what he thought of me? To hear how I let him down? Am I ready to know exactly how much I hurt him and how I could have, should have, saved him, if only I’d paid more attention and read the signs and not opened my big mouth and listened to him and been enough and maybe loved him more?”

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334. “If only world leaders would get laid well and regularly, the world’s problems might disappear.”

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335. “This is my secret – that at any moment I might fly away.”

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336. “He kisses me again and leans sexily against the door, as if he knows how good he looks.”

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337. “For a second, I think he’s going to kiss me. For a second, I want him to.”

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338. “I try to concentrate on the words, on the melody, but then she starts searching through songs, and this feels like my brain – fragments of words, fragments of melodies, fragments of moments, fragments of things.”

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339. “There’s no rush of having survived, only emptiness, and lungs that need air, and wet hair sticking to my face.”

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340. “The Parents, as my mother and father refer to Mr. Finch and Mrs. Finch, are insisting it was an accident, which, I guess, means we’re free to mourn him out in the open in a normal, healthy, unstigmatised way. No need to be ashamed or embarrassed since suicide isn’t involved.”

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341. “You can’t stop living.”

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342. “If he really loves you, he’ll find a way.”

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343. “Maybe this time I’ll do it – let the air carry me away. It will be like floating in a pool, drifting off until there’s nothing.”

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344. “The happy times went away for a while, but they’re coming back.”

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345. “It’s just to talk. Nothing more. It’s not like I’m hitting on you. Finch: Unless you want me to. Hit on you, I mean. Me: No. Finch: “No” you don’t want me to come over? Or “no” you don’t want me hitting on you?”

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346. “And then I go up to my room, climb onto a chair, and contemplate the mechanics of hanging.”

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347. “The air is full of things we aren’t saying, and I wonder if he feels it too.”

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348. “It’s exhausting, constantly having to search for the people you love.”

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349. “Brenda is staring at Roamer and the rest of the crying herd, her eyes dry and angry. I know what she’s feeling. Here are these people who called him ‘freak’ and never paid attention to him, except to make fun of him or spread rumors about him, and now they are carrying on like professional mourners, the ones you can hire in Taiwan or the Middle East to sing, cry, and crawl on the ground. His family is just as bad.”

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350. “They’re the words I try to outrun, because if I let them in, they might stay there and grown and fill me up and in, until the only thing left of me is worthless stupid worthless stupid worthless stupid freak.”

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