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1 " I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is. "
― Jennifer Niven , All the Bright Places
2 " The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. "
3 " People rarely bring flowers to a suicide. "
4 " What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? 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. "
5 " We do not remember days, we remember moments. "
6 " You shouldn't spend all your time worrying about the love that leaves, because then you might overlook the love that was always there. "
― Jennifer Niven , Velva Jean Learns to Fly (Velva Jean, #2)
7 " The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, we'd all be happier. "
8 " The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing. "
9 " 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 , American Blonde (Velva Jean, #4)
10 " The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything. "
11 " 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 "
― Jennifer Niven , Holding Up the Universe
12 " I run until time stops. Until my mind stops. "
13 " For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself. "
14 " Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around. "
15 " I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom... "
16 " Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path. "
― Jennifer Niven , The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town
17 " Now, if you asked him what he was going to do with himself, he'd tell you he guessed he might do anything he set his mind to. But he'd say it in a far-off way, as if he didn't really mean it or care much at all. "
18 " Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone. "
19 " It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them. "
20 " I’m sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help.” “I feel responsible. "
