I think about Finch and Sir Patrick Moore and black holes and blue holes and bottomless bodies of water and exploding stars and event horizons, and a place so dark that light can't get out once it's in.

— Jennifer Niven

I think it's early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you're counting, you'll notice the early outnumber the lats.

— 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

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.

— 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 you in.

— Jennifer Niven

I’ve always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a perfect point in your life so that nothing changes

— Jennifer Niven

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 don't want to be anyone but Theodore Finch, the boy she sees. He understands what it is to be elegant and euphoric and a hundred 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 doesn't 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 Market Loves.

— Jennifer Niven

I want you to remember that you can’t feel responsible for everything. We’re your parents, and we will figure us out. All you need to do— any of you”— she looks at my brothers—” is be a kid for now and let us be there for you.”“All of us?” Dusty says. “Even those of us without neurological disorders?” “All of you.

— Jennifer Niven

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

— 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 don't know."" Have you ever had one?"" No."" I've never had one either, but I'm looking for it.

— Jennifer Niven