Quotes from the novel 'All The Bright Places'

 A novel by Jennifer Niven 

• But it's only when I'm awake that I think about dying.
• It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.
• In that instant we went plowing through the guardrail, my words died too.
• Our mountain is waiting.
• It's all just time filler until we die.
• If there's anything I've learned, it's that you need to make the most of it.
• 'You make me feel gold, flowing'.
• I do it so it feels real.
• Let us fall.
• I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it.
• There's always somewhere to go.
• Do whatever it takes to remind myself that I'm still here and have a say.
• Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.
• I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to.
• It's growing out of a label that's hard.
• "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.
• 'Lovely' is a lovely word that should be used more often.
• What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good?
• You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.
• 'May your eye go to the Sun, To the wind your soul, Or go to the waters if it suits thee there.'
• I'm afraid of me.
• I'm broken and no one can fix it.
• I'll never hurt you...But I can't promise I won't pick you apart, piece by piece, until you're in a thousand pieces, just like me.
• 'Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.'
• 'Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they're not.'
• "Extenuating circumstances." Here I am again.
• Jealousy is a mean, unpleasant feeling that only eats you from the inside.
• 'No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.'
• We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.
• 'The cadence of suffering has begun.'
• 'We do not remember days, we remember moments.'
• 'The thing is, they were all perfect days.'
• 'Sometimes there's beauty in the tough words - it's all in how you read them.'
• I'd like to live in a world designed by Theodore Finch.
• 'Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow.'
• "Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!"
• 'Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.'
• The thing I realize is that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
• 'You make me special, and God knows I've longed to be that kind of guy to have around.'
• 'You make me love you, and that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do.'
• 'I linger like the legends of the Blue Hole. I will always be here, in the offerings and people I left behind.'
• No longer rooted, but gold, flowing.