1. “Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow. Forever changed. I am forever changed.” ― Jennifer Niven
2. “The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.” ― Jennifer Niven
3. “The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.” ― Jennifer Niven
4. “The thing is, they were all perfect days.” ― Jennifer Niven
5. “You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.” ― Jennifer Niven
6. “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?” – Jennifer Niven
7. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” ― Jennifer Niven
8. “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.” ― Jennifer Niven
9. “Just be careful with that heart of yours.” ― Jennifer Niven
10. “Do whatever it takes to remind myself that I’m still here and have a say.” ― Jennifer Niven
11. “If there’s one thing i know, it’s that no one can promise anything.” ― Jennifer Niven
12. “The thing I realize is that it’s not what you take. It’s what you leave.” ― Jennifer Niven
13. “Let’s go. Let’s count for something. Let’s get off that ledge.” ― Jennifer Niven
14. “I’m not a compilation of symptoms. Not a casualty of shitty parents and an even shittier chemical makeup. Not a problem. Not a diagnosis. Not an illness. Not something to be rescued. I’m a person.” ― Jennifer Niven
15. “I stand in front of the mirror and study my face.…It is the face of a sad, lonely girl something bad has happened to. I wonder if my face will ever look the same again, or if I’ll always see it in my reflection – Finch, Eleanor, loss, heartache, guilt, death.” ― Jennifer Niven
16. “I think of my own epitaph, still to be written, and all the places I’ll wander. No longer rooted, but gold, flowing. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me.” ― Jennifer Niven
17. “Even when we weren’t wandering, even from the floor of your closet, you showed the world to me.” ― Jennifer Niven
18. “I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I’ve cried a few times, but mostly I’m empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.” ― Jennifer Niven
19. “The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.” ― Jennifer Niven
20. “Disguise the pain. Don’t call attention. Don’t be noticed.” ― Jennifer Niven
21. “Sometimes, there’s beauty in the tough words – it’s all in how you read them.” ― Jennifer Niven
22. “What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.” ― Jennifer Niven
23. “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.” ― Jennifer Niven
