Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

"I’m sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help.” “I feel responsible."

"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."

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

"I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom..."

"Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around."

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

"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."

"I run until time stops. Until my mind stops."

"Were you planning to jump off"“Not on pizza day. Never on pizza day, which is one of the better days of the week.” I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector."

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

"I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase "elegance and euphoria," and how it describes exactly what I feel with Violet. For once, I don't want to be anyone but Theodore Finch, the boy she sees. He understands what it is to be elegant and euphoric and a hundered different people most of them flawed and stupid, part asshole, part screwup, part freak, a boy who wants to be easy for the folks around him so that he doesn't worry them and, most of all, easy for himself. A boy who belongs - here in the world, here in his own skin. He is exactly who I want to be and what I want my epitaph to say: The Boy Violet Markey Loves."

"The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, we'd all be happier."

"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."

"People rarely bring flowers to a suicide."

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

"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."