Jennifer Niven

“May your eye go to the Sun, to the Wind your soul... You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”

— Jennifer Niven

“I like my mouth, especially when it's attached to Violet's.”

— Jennifer Niven

“before i die i want to matter”

— Jennifer Niven

“What were you doing up on that ledge?" It comes out a whisper. "The same thing you were. I wanted to see…

— Jennifer Niven

You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.

— Jennifer Niven

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being…

— Jennifer Niven

“And then, because I’m now the one thinking too much, and because she is different from all other girls and because I…

— Jennifer Niven

“We can't always see what others don't want us to”

— Jennifer Niven

“Written on the wall behind them was: 'Blues for the body, food for the soul.”

— Jennifer Niven

“There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will…

— Jennifer Niven

“Gentlemen are rare. They're like virgins or leprechauns. If I ever get married, I'm going to marry one." I can't resist saying,…

— Jennifer Niven

“It’s easier just to do the right thing from the start so there’s nothing to apologize for.”

— Jennifer Niven

“We can't fight another person's battles, no matter how much we want to”

— Jennifer Niven

“I used to think that. But then I realized, believe it or not, it’s actually beautiful to some people. It must be,…

— Jennifer Niven

“I have songs to write and songs to sing and planes to fly and I want to see my old yellow truck…

— Jennifer Niven

“It was funny about writing. It was like flying or driving or playing an instrument. When you were doing it like you…

— Jennifer Niven

“I sit up and scoot back and check the wall I was leaning against. There are Post-its here too, and for some…

— Jennifer Niven

“Two broken, lonely people who maybe aren't so broken or lonely anymore.”

— Jennifer Niven

“At times such as this, it becomes more important for art to survive.”

— Jennifer Niven

“This is my secret---that any moment I might fly away.”

— Jennifer Niven

“I don’t want to hear about the cardinal again. Because the thing of it is, that cardinal was dead either way, whether…

— Jennifer Niven

“I’m five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov.”

— Jennifer Niven

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don’t have to do them all at once.

— Jennifer Niven

“It's okay to be a person. We're all afraid. We all get hurt. It's okay to hurt. You'd be so much more…

— Jennifer Niven

“Everything is going to be okay. You are going to be okay. You may already be okay.”

— Jennifer Niven