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181 " I am rooted, but I flow. All gold, flowing … "
― Jennifer Niven , All the Bright Places
182 " I am in pieces. "
183 " You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you’re going to stay up on the ledge you’ve made for yourself. "
184 " Drive anywhere and everywhere, even when there’s nowhere to go. (Note: There’s always somewhere to go.) "
185 " Even when we weren’t wandering, even from the floor of your closet, you showed the world to me. "
186 " Theodore Finch - I was alive.I burned brightly.And then I died,but not really.Because someone like me cannot,will not,die like everyone else.I linger like the legends of the Blue Hole.I will always be here,in the offerings and people I left behind. "
187 " You make me love you,And that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do... "
188 " Before I die, I want to...be the person I’m meant to be and have that be enough. "
189 " I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means-the best and worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you're mad at them, you know they're not going to stop being your friend. "
190 " What would I have said to him if I’d known I would never see him again? "
191 " 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. "
192 " It's about the important things, like the way their face lights up when they laugh, or the way they move as they're walking towards you, or the way their freckles create a map of the stars. "
― Jennifer Niven , Holding Up the Universe
193 " You don’t know how it is. It’s like I’ve got this angry little person inside me, and I can feel him trying to get out. He’s running out of room because he’s growing bigger and bigger, and so he starts rising up, into my lungs, chest, throat, and I just push him right back down. I don’t want him to come out. I can’t let him out. "
194 " Do whatever it takes to remind myself that I’m still here and have a say. "
195 " Before I die I want to __________. "
196 " Disguise the pain. Don’t call attention. Don’t be noticed. "
197 " Let’s go. Let’s count for something. Let’s get off that ledge. "
198 " People like Theodore Finch don't die.He's just wandering. "
199 " We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one. "
200 " We can't fight another person's battle, no matter how much we want to. "