Top 450 Jennifer Niven Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “I can’t love anyone because it’s not fair to anyone who loves me back.”

— Jennifer Niven

352. “You make me love you...”

— Jennifer Niven

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

— Jennifer Niven

354. “Please, earth, swallow me whole.”

— Jennifer Niven

355. “Just because they’re dead, they don’t have to be. And neither do we.”

— Jennifer Niven

356. “One entire wall is covered in pictures and Post-it notes and napkins and torn pieces of paper.”

— Jennifer Niven

357. “What would happen if one of those elements malfunctioned or just stopped working altogether?”

— Jennifer Niven

358. “According to Charlie, getting laid fixes everything. If only world leaders would get laid well and regularly, the world’s problems might disappear.”

— Jennifer Niven

359. “My whole life I’ve run either three times faster than everyone else or three times slower.”

— Jennifer Niven

360. “Positive ones go on the wall, negative on the floor over there. He points to this heap of paper. It’s important to get those down but they don’t need to stick around after you do.”

— Jennifer Niven

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

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

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

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364. “I wonder if this is the way it will be next year if I come to New York, or wherever I go – me trying to concentrate on college, on life, when all I’m doing is thinking about him. I wonder if he’ll come with me, or if our built-in ending is high school.”

— Jennifer Niven

365. “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.”

— Jennifer Niven

366. “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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367. “It’s true, after all, at least compared to him, and actually what he means is that I have bad luck with women. Something about going for the bitchy ones or the crazy ones or the ones who pretend not to know me when other people are around.”

— Jennifer Niven

368. “You deserve better. I can’t promise you I’ll stay around, not because I don’t want to. It’s hard to explain. I’m a fuckup. I’m broken, and no one can fix it. I’ve tried. I’m still trying. I can’t love anyone because it’s not fair to anyone who loves me back.”

— Jennifer Niven

369. “You dress to please yourself. If she doesn’t like you for you, then you don’t need her.′ All of this would be fine if I knew exactly who me for me was.”

— Jennifer Niven

370. “Apparently, I’m tragic and dangerous.”

— Jennifer Niven

371. “I’m sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help.” “I feel responsible.”

— Jennifer Niven

372. “We can’t always see what others don’t want us to.”

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373. “Writing was what I did best, better than being a daughter or girlfriend or sister. Writing was me.”

— Jennifer Niven

374. “The last wandering.”

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375. “He is angry at the world outside this house, and that makes me love him even more.”

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376. “You know, that’s what you’ve been doing in a way – coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell.”

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377. “The thing about eating is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. I feel the same way about sleeping. Complete wastes of time.”

— Jennifer Niven

378. “As long as you live, there’s always something waiting; and even if it’s bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.”

— Jennifer Niven

379. “But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?”

— Jennifer Niven

380. “It’s not what you take, it’s what you leave.”

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381. “Maybe. Or maybe it’s a whole other world, one we can’t even imagine.”

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382. “I can’t think of anything more depressing than to be an Egyptian high priest on display next to a set of vintage wagon wheels and a two-headed chicken.”

— Jennifer Niven

383. “Besides, I kind of like my face intact like this, two eyes, one nose, one mouth, a full set of teeth, which, if I’m being honest, is one of my better features.”

— Jennifer Niven

384. “Affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”

— Jennifer Niven

385. “This is what I want to do with Violet – give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.”

— Jennifer Niven

386. “I prayed maybe he hadn’t seen me after all, that maybe he’d taken off after a sinner or a squirrel, instead.”

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387. “How could I ever feel anything but lucky that this girl likes me?”

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388. “My mouth is an inch from hers, and I wait for her to slap me or push me away, but then she closes her eyes, and that’s when I know – I’m in. Okay.”

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389. “He writes Before I die I want to and draws a line. He writes it again. Then he writes it a dozen more times. “After we fill these up, we can keep going on the front of the building and down the other side. It’s a good way to figure out just why we’re here.”

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390. “You were up on the ledge because you didn’t know where else to turn and what else to do. You’d lost all hope.”

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391. “It’s only when you panic that you pull yourself under and sink.”

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392. “Get out there and see your state. Go to museums and parks and historic sites. Get yourselves some culture so that when you do leave you can take it.”

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393. “It is my job in life, apparently, to teach gawking, laughing girls lessons about kindness. If.”

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394. “Over my desk, I’ve got this enormous bulletin board, and on it I’ve tacked black-and-white photographs of writers at work.”

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395. “I am in pieces.”

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396. “There’s this feeling you get when you write a really good, true sentence or paragraph or scene, and it makes you feel invincible, as if you can do anything. It feels like a superpower, and in that moment no one can touch you. You’re the best there is. That’s how you make me feel, Jeremiah Crew. Like I’m the best there is.”

— Jennifer Niven

397. “He throws his arms out over his head, fists clenched, and shouts: ‘Open your eyes and look at me! I’m right bloody here!’ He shouts all the things he hates and wants to change until his voice is hoarse. Then he nods over at me. ‘Your turn.”

— Jennifer Niven

398. “I can feel the apology in his fingers, and this takes the wind out of me, so I lean into him – just a little – and read over his shoulder. His hand is warm and I don’t want to stop holding it. We.”

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399. “Instead, I pull out my wallet and hand Mrs. Carnes a twenty, which is the smallest I have, and she counts off the books.”

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400. “She and I have gotten to be kind of friendly, and that’s making me very, very happy. Like stupidly happy. Like so-happy-my-friends-can’t-stand-to-be-around-me happy.”

— Jennifer Niven