Top 450 Jennifer Niven Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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.”

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352. “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.”

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353. “The bad moments always have a way of coming around again, way too soon.”

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354. “It’s the kind of smile you smile when you’re thinking someone over and trying to decide how you feel about them.”

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355. “At lunch, I sit with Charlie, surrounded by people but alone. They are talking to me and around me, but I can’t hear them. I pretend to be interested in one of my books, but the words dance on the page, and I tell myself to smile so that no one will see, and I smile and I nod and I do a pretty good job of it.”

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

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

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

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

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360. “And then, because I’m now the one thinking too much, and because she is different from all other girls and because I really, really don’t want to screw this up, I concentrate on kissing her on the banks of the Blue Hole, in the sunshine, and I let that be enough.”

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361. “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.”

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362. “He smiles at me, and for the first time I notice how blue his eyes are- like, bright-shy blue.”

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363. “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.”

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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.”

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

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367. “Just be careful” implies that there’s an end to it all, maybe in an hour, maybe in three years, but an end just the same.”

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

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

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

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

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

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373. “The last wandering.”

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

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

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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.”

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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.”

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

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

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381. “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.”

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382. “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.”

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

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384. “I am in pieces.”

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385. “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.”

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386. “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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387. “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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388. “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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389. “It’s only when you panic that you pull yourself under and sink.”

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

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392. “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?”

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393. “Do you think there’s such a thing as a perfect day?”

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394. “Believe it or not, it’s actually beautiful to some people.”

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395. “I do it so it feels real.”

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396. “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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397. “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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398. “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.”

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399. “At times such as this, it becomes more important for art to survive.”

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400. “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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