Caitlin > Caitlin's Quotes

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

“Listen, I’m the freak. I’m the weirdo. I’m the troublemaker. I start fights. I let people down. Don’t make Finch mad, whatever you do. Oh, there he goes again, in one of his moods. Moody Finch. Angry Finch. Unpredictable Finch. Crazy Finch. But I’m not a compilation of symptoms. Not a casualty of shitty parents and an even shittier chemical makeup. Not a problem. Not a diagnosis. Not an illness. Not something to be rescued. I’m a person.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“What a terrible feeling to love soemone and not be able to help them.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means-the best and worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you're mad at them, you know they're not going to stop being your friend.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You don’t know how it is. It’s like I’ve got this angry little person inside me, and I can feel him trying to get out. He’s running out of room because he’s growing bigger and bigger, and so he starts rising up, into my lungs, chest, throat, and I just push him right back down. I don’t want him to come out. I can’t let him out.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Theodore Finch, April 3. “Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!”
― 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.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights

“Non nobis solum nati sumus.

(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.”
― Kevin Smith

“Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!”
― Bane

“Fear is a reasonable response to life.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Shit don't mean shit”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers