Alex

“She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can’t help thinking she’s more than that and she’s got other elements going on that no one’s ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else. I feel this brief panic as I think, What would happen if one of those elements malfunctioned or just stopped working altogether? I make myself push this aside and concentrate on the feel of her skin until I no longer see molecules but Violet.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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

“Standing in this house was like watching someone familiar smile at me, but with missing teeth.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends