“ The Parents, as my mother and father refer to Mr. Finch and Mrs. Finch, are insisting it was an accident, which, I guess, means we're free to mourn him out in the open in a normal, healthy, unstigmati… Jennifer Niven
“ What do you know about bipolar disorder?” I almost say, What do you know about it? But I make myself breathe and smile. “Is that the Jekyll-Hyde thing?” My voice sounds flat and even. Maybe a little b… Jennifer Niven
“ I meant what I said to Embryo about drugs. We don’t mix. What it comes down to for me is I have a hard enough time keeping control over my brain without something else getting in the way. Jennifer Niven
“ You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Jennifer Niven
“ Let me ask you something. Do you think there's such a thing as a perfect day?""What?""A perfect day. Start to finish. When nothing terrible or sad or ordinary happens. Do you think it's possible?""I d… Jennifer Niven
“ When he smiles like that, there's a single dimple. It was the thing that got me the very first time I saw him. Jennifer Niven
“ 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 Jennifer Niven
“ It's okay to laugh, you know. The earth's not going to split open. You're not going to hell. Believe me. If there's a hell, I'll be there ahead of you, and they'll be too busy with me to even check yo… Jennifer Niven
“ On all sides of us, spread out below, are little white lights and black pockets of trees. Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It’s hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. I hate to ad… Jennifer Niven
“ A string of thoughts run through my head like a song I can't get rid of, over and over in the same order: I am broken. I am a fraud. I am impossible to love. Jennifer Niven
“ 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 surgi… Jennifer Niven
“ As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living. 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
“ Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren't born for small! You don't know how to do small! Small is not in you! Jennifer Niven
“ You know, that's what you've been doing in a way--coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell. Jennifer Niven
“ I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left? Jennifer Niven
“ Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy. Jennifer Niven
