Lena > Lena's Quotes

“What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked.
Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us."
"Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Before I die I want to __________.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him last.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You are all the colours in one, at full brightness.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“My beloved boat is broken on the rocks of daily life. I’ve paid my debts and no longer need to count pains I’ve suffered at the hands of others. The misfortunes and the insults. Good luck to those who remain.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“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, All the Bright Places

“Finch: Theodore Finch, in search of the Great Manifesto
Violet: I don't know that what means
Finch: It means 'the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation - in short, to remain a memory.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“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, All the Bright Places

“I skim through our notebook, thick with words, and then through our Facebook messages—so many now—and then I write a new one, quoting Virginia Woolf: “Let us wander whirling to the gilt chairs.… Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here …?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“She puts one leg in the car and says, “I guess now you know you’re not the only freak.” It’s the nicest thing she’s ever said to me.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Along those lines, accept any and all thoughts (don’t be afraid of them no matter what they are).”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“If anyone can make it to another world, it’s Theodore Finch.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You make me love you, and that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Ultraviolet Remarkey-able,I think I love you.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Where are you? And why did you go? I guess I'll never know this. Was it because I made you mad? Because I tried to help? Because I didn't answer when you threw rocks at my window? What if I had answered? What would you have said to me? Would I have been able to talk you into staying or talk you out of doing what you did? Or would that have happened anyway? Do you know my life is forever changed now? I used to think that was true because you came into it and, in doing that, forced me out of my room and into the world. Even when we weren't wandering, even from the floor of your closet, you showed the world to me. I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, in such a final way. So I guess there was no Great Manifesto after all, even though you made me believe there was. I guess there was only a school project. I'll never forgive you for leaving me. I just wish you could forgive me. You saved my life. And, finally, I simply write: Why couldn't I save yours?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I’m trying out Theodore Finche, ‘80s kid, and seeing how he fits.
I fish through my desk for a cigarette, stick it in my mouth, and remember as I’m reaching for my lighter that Theodore Finch, ‘80s kid, doesn’t smoke. God, I hate him, the clean-cut, eager little prick.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The thing I can’t, won’t, mention to him is that I see Finch everywhere—in the hallways at school, on the street, in my neighborhood. Someone’s face will remind me of him, or someone’s walk or someone’s laugh. It’s like being surrounded by a thousand different Finches. I wonder if this is normal,”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You make me happy, whenever you're around I'm safe inside your smile.

You make me handsome, whenever I feel my nose just seems a bit too round.

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.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“On March 23, 1950, Italian poet Cesare Pavese wrote: 'Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation--in short, to remain a memory.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.…”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I thought I could wait, but I can't. Sorry.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“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”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I feel the way his hand,warm and firm,fits around mine.He may keep changing,but that never does.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“ ‘Lovely’ is a lovely word that should be used more often.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Write (this includes any thoughts I don’t want to have—write them out fast so they’re out of me and on the paper).”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I mean, I know but I don't. I've always been different, but to me different is normal.”
― 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

“I was here. TF.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places