Violet Markey Quotes

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

“Never bullshit a bullshitter.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I think this is the ugliest place I’ve ever seen. Not just here. The whole state.” 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.” 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

“In case you haven't noticed, we're already involved, Finch. And in case you haven't noticed, I'm broken too.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You make me happy...
You make me special...
You make me lovely...”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Sometimes things feel true to us, even if they're not.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Sometimes, things feel true to us, even if they're not.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe—I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places