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“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I think this is the ugliest place I’ve ever seen. Not just here. The whole state.â€� I hear my parents telling me not to be negative, which is funny because I’ve always been the happy one. It’s Eleanor who was moody. “I used to think that. But then I realized, believe it or not, it’s actually beautiful to some people. It must be, because enough people live here, and they can’t all think it’s ugly.â€� He smiles out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he can see Oz. As if he can really, truly see the beauty that’s there. In that moment I wish I could see it through his eyes.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I like writing, but I like a lot of things. Maybe out of those things, I'm best at writing. Maybe it's what I like best of all. Maybe it's where I've always felt most at home. Or maybe the writing part of me is over. Maybe there's something else I'm supposed to do instead. I don't know.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Theodore Finch—I was alive. I burned brightly. And then I died, but not really. Because someone like me cannot, will not, die like everyone else. I linger like the legends of the Blue Hole. I will always be here, in the offerings and people I left behind.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.

Actually, I know exactly how that feels.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You can't do this to me. You were the one who lectured me about living. You were the one who said I had to get out and see what was right in front of me and make the most of it and not wish my time away and find my mountain because my mountain was waiting, and all that adds up to life. But then you leave. You can't just do that. Especially when you know what I went through losing Eleanor.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“No longer rooted, but gold, flowing. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“May your eye go to the Sun, To the wind your soul...You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I can only tell you how I felt. Ugly. Disgusting. Stupid. Small. Worthless. Forgotten. It just feels like there's no choice. Like it's the most logical thing to do because what else is there? You think, 'No one will even miss me. They won't know I'm gone. The world will go on, and it won't matter that I'm not here. Maybe it's better if I was never here.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way. So I guess there was no Great Manifesto after all, even though you made me believe there was.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“So it's good and it's bad and it hurts, but I like thinking about him. If I think about him, he won't be completely gone either. Just because they're dead, they don't have to be. And neither do we.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“It feels somehow epic and fragile, and I want the night to last forever, and knowing it can't already has made me sad.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Being sucked into a black hole would pretty much be the coolest way to die. It's not like anyone has firsthand experience, and scientists can't decide if you would spend weeks floating past the event horizon before being torn apart or soar into a kind of maelstrom of particles and be burned alive. I like to think of what it would be like if we were swallowed, just like that. Suddenly none of this would matter. No more worrying about where we're going or what's to become of us or if we'll ever disappoint another person again. All of it—just...gone."
"So there's nothing."
"Maybe. Or maybe it's a whole other world, one we can't even imagine.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Cesare Pavese, believer in the Great Manifesto, wrote, "We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“...she was good at that, taking things one step further and making them bigger and more exciting than they would have been.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“...and while it's not the most exciting conversation I've ever had, it is a nice, normal date, with a nice, normal guy, and there's something to be said for that right now.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I suddenly like his solidness and sense of permanence, as if what you see is what you get, and he will always be and do exactly what you expect him to be and do.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“...and so the preacher talks about the tragedy of someone dying so young, of a life ended too soon, of possibilities never realized.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Could I have done more? Possibly. Yes. We can always do more. It's a tough question to answer, and, ultimately, a pointless one to ask. You might be feeling some of the same emotions and having some of these same thoughts.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way!”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Theodore FinchI was alive. I burned brightly. And then I died, but not really. Because someone like me cannot, will not, die like everyone else. I linger like the legends of the Blue Hole. I will always be here, in the offerings and people I left behind.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“No one will ever know what her belief and enthusiasm meant at that particular time in my life. I wake up every day counting my lucky stars for Kerry and all the fantastic folks at Levine Greenberg Rostan (special thanks to Monika Verma and Elizabeth Fisher). They make me lovely.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“...and the rest of Sales, Marketing, and Publicity) have created the brightest of places for me to live, breathe, and work, and I am thrilled out of my head to be there.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Thank you to my family and friends for unwavering support, even when I am insufferably consumed by my work (which is most of the time). I couldn't do it without you.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“...who remains a wise mentor and cherished friend.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Thanks most of all to my beautiful mother and fellow author, Penelope Niven, who made the world lovelier just by being in it.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“She taught me from childhood that my mountain was waiting, and she never stopped encouraging me to keep climbing.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places