Brooke McAfee

“ ‘Lovely’ is a lovely word that should be used more often.”
― 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

“She is walking several feet ahead, pretending I don't exist, but that's okay, I'm used to it, and what she doesn't know is that is doesn't faze me. People either see me or they don't. I wonder what it's like to walk down the street, safe and easy in your skin, and just blend right in. No one turning away, no one starring, no one waiting and expecting, wondering what stupid, crazy thing you'll do next
Then I can't hold back anymore, and I take off running, and it feels good to break free from the slow, regular pace of everyone else. I break free from my mind, which is, for some reason, picturing myself as dead as the authors of the books she has collected, asleep for good this time, buried deep in the ground under layers and layers of dirt and cornfields. I can almost feel the earth closing in, the air going stale and damp, the dark pressing down on top of me, and I have to open my mouth to breath.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places