Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

"Just be careful" implies that there's an end to it all, maybe in an hour, maybe in three years, but an end just the same."

"This is followed by laughter because we're in high school, which means we're predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if it's someone else's public humiliation."

"There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is."

"If a song's meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones."

"The only way around it is to stay with one guy forever." But does forever have a built-in ending...?"

"You’re probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone’s better at math than I am, but it’s okay, I’m fine with it. See, I excel at other, more important things—guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few."

"You’re probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone’s better at math than I am, but it’s okay, I’m fine with it. See, I excel at other, more important things—guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few. By the way, it's apparently true that you'll never use it in the real world. Math, I mean."

"In case you haven't noticed, we're already involved, Finch. And in case you haven't noticed, I'm broken too."

"I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way."

"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 people from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either."

"Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel."

"In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed himself. He jumped to test his invention--he expected to fly--but instead he fell straight down, hitting the ground like a meteor and leaving a 5.9-inch-deep crater from the impact. Did he mean to kill himself? Doubtful. I think he was just cocky, and also stupid."

"I think it's early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you're counting, you'll notice the earlys outnumber the lates."

"I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what."

"The Parents, as my mother and father refer to Mr. Finch and Mrs. Finch, are insisting it was an accident, which, I guess, means we're free to mourn him out in the open in a normal, healthy, unstigmatised way. No need to be ashamed or embarrassed since suicide isn't involved."

"What do you know about bipolar disorder?” I almost say, What do you know about it? But I make myself breathe and smile. “Is that the Jekyll-Hyde thing?” My voice sounds flat and even. Maybe a little bored, even though my mind and body are on alert. “Some people call it manic depression. It’s a brain disorder that causes extreme shifts in mood and energy. It runs in families, but it can be treated.” I continue to breathe, even if I’m not smiling anymore, but here is what is happening: my brain and my heart are pounding out different rhythms; my hands are turning cold and the back of my neck is turning hot; my throat has gone completely dry. The thing I know about bipolar disorder is that it’s a label. One you give crazy people. I know this because I’ve taken junior-year psychology and I’ve seen movies and I’ve watched my father in action for almost eighteen years, even though you could never slap a label on him because he would kill you. Labels like “bipolar” say This is why you are the way you are. This is who you are. They explain people away as illnesses."

"I meant what I said to Embryo about drugs. We don’t mix. What it comes down to for me is I have a hard enough time keeping control over my brain without something else getting in the way."

"You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you."

"Stars on the sky, stars on the ground. It's hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins."

"Let me ask you something. Do you think there's such a thing as a perfect day"What"A perfect day. Start to finish. When nothing terrible or sad or ordinary happens. Do you think it's possible"I don't know."Have you ever had one"No."I've never had one either, but I'm looking for it."