Top 450 Jennifer Niven Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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?”

— Jennifer Niven

352. “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.”

— Jennifer Niven

353. “You make me love you...”

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354. “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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355. “You can’t stop living.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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365. “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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366. “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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367. “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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368. “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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369. “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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370. “And then I go up to my room, climb onto a chair, and contemplate the mechanics of hanging.”

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

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372. “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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373. “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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374. “I’ve always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes. Think about it. Loved ones don’t die. You don’t age. You go to bed and wake up the next morning to find everything just as you left it. No surprises.”

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

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376. “Sometimes things end, even if you don’t want them to.”

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

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

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381. “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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382. “It’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.”

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

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

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387. “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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388. “Apparently, I’m tragic and dangerous.”

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

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390. “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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391. “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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392. “How could I ever feel anything but lucky that this girl likes me?”

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

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394. “The last wandering.”

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

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397. “I am in pieces.”

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398. “We kiss until my lips are numb, stopping ourselves on the very edge of Someday, saying not yet, not here, even though it takes willpower I didn’t know I had. My mind is spinning with him and with the unexpected Almost of today.”

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399. “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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400. “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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