Jennifer Niven Quotes

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own-my words are gone.

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.

Never bullshit a bullshitter.

She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die.

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.

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.

Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts.

I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

Sometimes you got to just feel, especially when it comes to music. Notes, scales, they just get in the way.

I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means-the best and worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you're mad at them, you know they're not going to stop being your friend.

I run until time stops. Until my mind stops.

Who cares for Algebra?
Who delights in solving math?
I only want to live my life
Along the creative path.

I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me. I I

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.