The only way around it is to stay with one guy forever." But does forever have a built-in ending...?

— Jennifer Niven

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, stigmatized way. No need to be ashamed or embarrassed since suicide isn't involved.

— Jennifer Niven

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

— Jennifer Niven

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, we'd all be happier.

— Jennifer Niven

There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.

— Jennifer Niven

There aren't many people who would say this about me, but the great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

— Jennifer Niven

The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.

— Jennifer Niven

This is followed by laughter because we're in high school, which means we're predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if it's someone else's public humiliation.

— 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

Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Trout. You weren't born for small! You don't know how to do small! Small is not in you!

— Jennifer Niven