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“Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.”
― Maksim Gorky 18681936

“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history”
― Carl T. Rowan

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.”
― Richie Norton

“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

“Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It’s hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. I feel the need to say something grand and poetic, but the only thing I come up with is “It’s lovely.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Drive anywhere and everywhere, even when there’s nowhere to go. (Note: There’s always somewhere to go.)”
― 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

“What would I have said to him if I’d known I would never see him again?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Let’s go. Let’s count for something. Let’s get off that ledge.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Maybe even the smallest places mean something.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The last wandering”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You are all the colours in one, at full brightness.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“When we’re in the act of wandering, we need to be present, not watching it through a lens.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything.”
― 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

“I can feel the worries fading away. I’m relaxed and happy—happier than I’ve been in a while. I am in the moment. I am here.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Every forty seconds, someone is left behind to cope with the loss.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Where are you? And why did you go? I guess I'll never know this. Was it because I made you mad? Because I tried to help? Because I didn't answer when you threw rocks at my window? What if I had answered? What would you have said to me? Would I have been able to talk you into staying or talk you out of doing what you did? Or would that have happened anyway? Do you know my life is forever changed now? I used to think that was true because you came into it and, in doing that, forced me out of my room and into the world. Even when we weren't wandering, even from the floor of your closet, you showed the world to me. I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, in such a final way. So I guess there was no Great Manifesto after all, even though you made me believe there was. I guess there was only a school project. I'll never forgive you for leaving me. I just wish you could forgive me. You saved my life. And, finally, I simply write: Why couldn't I save yours?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I hate you.
If only I'd known.
If only I'd been enough .
I let you down.
I wish I could have done something.
I should have done something.
Was it my fault?
Why wasn't I enough?
Come back.
I love you.
I'm sorry.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“One entire wall is covered in pictures and Post-it notes and napkins and torn pieces of paper.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“But maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“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