Quotes by Jennifer Niven

Across the seat our eyes are holding hands.

In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed himself. He jumped to test his invention--he expected to fly--but instead he fell straight down, hitting the ground like a meteor and leaving a 5.9-inch-deep crater from the impact. Did he mean to kill himself? Doubtful. I think he was just cocky, and also stupid.

You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.

Because its not a lie if its how you feel.

I know life well enough to know you cant count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You cant stop people from dying. You cant stop people from going away. You cant stop yourself from going away either.

I didnt know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way.

In case you havent noticed, were already involved, Finch. And in case you havent noticed, Im broken too.

You’re probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone’s better at math than I am, but it’s okay, I’m fine with it. See, I excel at other, more important things—guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few. By the way, its apparently true that youll never use it in the real world. Math, I mean.

You’re probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone’s better at math than I am, but it’s okay, I’m fine with it. See, I excel at other, more important things—guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few.

The only way around it is to stay with one guy forever. But does forever have a built-in ending...?

If a songs meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones.

There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.

I have songs to write and songs to sing and planes to fly and I want to see my old yellow truck again.

This is followed by laughter because were in high school, which means were predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if its someone elses public humiliation.

Just be careful implies that theres an end to it all, maybe in an hour, maybe in three years, but an end just the same.

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time its the small things that count.”

“You make me lovely, and its so lovely to be lovely to the one I love...”

“Dear friend, You are not a freak. You are wanted. You are necessary. You are the only you there is. Don’t be afraid to leave the castle. It’s a great big world out there. Love, a fellow reader”

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time its the small things that count. Everyones so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that theres such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, wed all be happier.”

“I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase elegance and euphoria, and how it describes exactly what I feel with Violet. For once, I dont want to be anyone but Theodore Finch, the boy she sees. He understands what it is to be elegant and euphoric and a hundered different people most of them flawed and stupid, part asshole, part screwup, part freak, a boy who wants to be easy for the folks around him so that he doesnt worry them and, most of all, easy for himself. A boy who belongs - here in the world, here in his own skin. He is exactly who I want to be and what I want my epitaph to say: The Boy Violet Markey Loves.”