Across the seat our eyes are holding hands.

— Jennifer Niven

Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around.

— 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

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

Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.

— Jennifer Niven

Besides, I kind of like my face intact like this, two eyes, one nose, one mouth, a full set of teeth, which, if I'm being honest, is one of my better features.

— Jennifer Niven

But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?

— Jennifer Niven

For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself.

— Jennifer Niven

I can already feel myself falling hard, something I've been known to do. All because she smiled at me.

— Jennifer Niven

I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me. I

— Jennifer Niven