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

“All I know is what I wonder: Which of my feelings are real? Which of the mes is me? There is only one me I’ve ever really liked, and he was good and awake as long as he could be.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I’d like to live in a world designed by Theodore Finch.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I am broken. I am a fraud. I am impossible to love.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I am in pieces.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Is today a good day to die?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“People are shitty for a lot of reasons. Sometimes they're just shitty people. Sometimes people have been shitty to them and, even though they don't realize it, they take that shitty upbringing and go out into the world and treat others the same way. Sometimes they're shitty because they're afraid. Sometimes they choose to be shitty to others before others can be shitty to them. So it's like self-defensive shittiness.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count. Everyone’s so busy waiting in the Waiting Place.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Theodore Finch - I was alive.I burned brightly.And then I died,but not really.Because someone like me cannot,will not,die like everyone else.I linger like the legends of the Blue Hole.I will always be here,in the offerings and people I left behind.”
― 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

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

“Before I die, I want to...be the person I’m meant to be and have that be enough.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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

“We can't fight another person's battle, no matter how much we want to.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

“You might expect me to say “life,” having just woken up and all, but it’s only when I’m awake that I think about dying.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I’m always amazed by people and their sleep. I wouldn’t ever sleep if I didn’t have to.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I’m a fuckup. I’m broken, and no one can fix it.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I just want to not be me.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I’m not better, you know. The weight hasn’t left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back into it, lie down and not eat, waste my time and curse wasting my time, look at my homework and freak out and go and chill at Aaron’s, look at Nia and be jealous again, take the subway home and hope that it has an accident, go and get my bike and head to the Brooklyn Bridge. All of that is still there. The only thing is, it’s not an option now. It’s just… a possibility, like it’s a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It’s not a very likely possibility.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Depression starts slow.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“It’s tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I can’t function here anymore. I mean in life: I can’t function in this life. I’m no better off than when I was in bed last night, with one difference: when I was in my own bed—or my mom’s—I could do something about it; now that I’m here I can’t do anything. I can’t ride my bike to the Brooklyn Bridge; I can’t take a whole bunch of pills and go for the good sleep; the only thing I can do is crush my head in the toilet seat, and I still don’t even know if that would work. They take away your options and all you can do is live, and it’s just like Humble said: I’m not afraid of dying; I’m afraid of living. I was afraid before, but I’m afraid even more now that I’m a public joke. The teachers are going to hear from the students. They’ll think I’m trying to make an excuse for bad work.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story