The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave. Jennifer Niven More Quotes by Jennifer Niven More Quotes From Jennifer Niven 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 leaving hurt laughing It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting. Jennifer Niven sympathetic hurt people The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody. Jennifer Niven great-things this-life different Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for. Jennifer Niven live-your-life waste sorry 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 fleeting body mind I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't. I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me. Jennifer Niven flower self running 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 hurt wish people 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 sleep night thinking Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy. Jennifer Niven holy magic No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring. Jennifer Niven finches winter spring You are all the colors in one, at full brightness. Jennifer Niven brightness color But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I'm floating. Jennifer Niven jupiter floating earth You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself. Jennifer Niven camels inspiration needs Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone. Jennifer Niven gone writing people You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love. Jennifer Niven lovely What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us. Jennifer Niven what-if cutting giving The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Jennifer Niven problem forget people Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground. Jennifer Niven dust eye feet I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257 bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person. Jennifer Niven towers bumps looks I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don’t have to do them all at once. Jennifer Niven just-one one-step-at-a-time steps
