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“Finally, he raised his hand and touched his fingers to his forehead. "I can give you this." He lowered his hand and pressed the tops of his fingers to the center of his chest. "And I can give you this. But not the rest. It's not who I am. Or what I am.”
― Ada Maria Soto, His Quiet Agent

tags: asexual, asexuality

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#2

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, depression, experience, hurting, mental-illness, ya

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#3

“We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#4

“I know life well enough to know you can’t count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can’t stop people from dying. You can’t stop them from going away. You can’t stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#5

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: happy, love, mind, peace, relaxation, sleep, thoughts

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#6

“People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, death, dying, jennifer-niven, life, suicide

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#7

“Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, feel, finch, lie, violet

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#8

“I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: alone, empty, emptyness, life, sad, tired

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#9

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

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#10

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

tags: quotes-to-live-by

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#11

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#12

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

tags: death, first-sentence

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#13

“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

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#14

“Disguise the pain. Don’t call attention. Don’t be noticed.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#15

“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

tags: sad-reality, shittiness, suck-it-up, true-to-life, understanding-others, why

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#16

“If there's one thing i know, it's that no one can promise anything.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#17

“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

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#18

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

tags: all-the-bright-places, bullshit, depression, haha, humor, jennifer-niven, love, tf, theodore-finch, violet-markey

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#19

“This is what I know about loss. It doesn't get better. You just get (somewhat) used to it.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

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#20

“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

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#21

“The cadence of suffering has begun - Cesare Pavese

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

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#22

“It's my experience that the people who are most afraid are the ones who hide behind mean and threatening words.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

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#23

“Everyone in my life is a stranger, and that includes me.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

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#24

“My beloved boat is broken on the rocks of daily life. I’ve paid my debts and no longer need to count pains I’ve suffered at the hands of others. The misfortunes and the insults. Good luck to those who remain.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#25

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

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#26

“Is today a good day to die?

Is today the day?
And if not today–when?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: awake, die, finch, suicide, today

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#27

“For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: dead, fearless, free, mind, peace, theodore-finch, weightless

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#28

“Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: other-people-s-words, reading, words, writing

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#29

“But what he hadn’t expected was that when everyone feared him and flattered him, Lan WangJi scolded him right in his face; when everyone spurned him and loathed him, Lan WangJi stood by his side.”
― 墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

tags: love, loyalty, wangxian

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#30

“You're really great. I like you...Or in other words, I fancy you, I love you, I want you, I can't leave you, I whatever you.”
― 墨香铜臭, 魔道祖師四 [Mo Dao Zu Shi Vol. 4]

tags: confession-of-love, love, wei-wuxian

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