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All the Bright Places

The beloved New York Times bestseller that Entertainment Weekly described as “sparkling” and says “get[s] under your skin.” You won’t soon forget this heart-wrenching, unflinching story of love shared, life lived, and two teens who find e

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“I am broken. I am a fraud. I am impossible to love.”

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

Tagged: broken, Unlovable, H4D-42

“I love the way her eyes spark when we're talking or when she's telling me something she wants me to know, the way she mouths the words to herself when she's reading and concentrating, the way she looks at me as if there's only me, as if she can see past the flesh and bone and bullshit right into me…”

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, deeply in love, Amazed

“She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can’t help thinking she’s more than that and she’s got other elements going on that no one’s ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else.”

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetic, Attraction, amusing, elements, Symbolism

“I love the way her eyes spark when we're talking or when she's telling me something she wants me to know, the way she mouths the words to herself when she's reading and concentrating, the way she looks at me as if there's only me, as if she can see past the flesh and bone and bullshit right into me…”

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, Attraction, liking someone, In love

“She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can’t help thinking she’s more than that and she’s got other elements going on that no one’s ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else.”

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

Tagged: admiration, Personality, Special Someone, Individuality

“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-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.”

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

Tagged: Goodness, goodness in life, Goodness In Everyone, Right Person, Love

“It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.”

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

Tagged: Experience, Observation, sympathy, hurt, Pain

“What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.”

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Helping someone

“What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.”

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

Tagged: Love

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Thinking, nocturnal, midnight, Silence, Serenity

“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 Nevin, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, World, Goodness, Hope, Love

“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.”

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

Tagged: Goodbyes, Leaving, Breakups

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

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

Tagged: Hope, Future, Mystery

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Mental Health, Sympathetic, Hurting, Pain

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Suffering, disease, Depression

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

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

Tagged: Future, uncertain