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Jennifer Niven is an American author born on May 14, 1968. Known for her poignant emotional storytelling and deep thematic explorations, her works primarily focus on young adult literature and adult fiction. Niven's novels have won numerous literary awards, including the American Library Association's Young Adult Choice Award.

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“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.”

Ifs Feels Should Has Beens Hurt Laughing Empty And Love Leaving These Days Cried Shells Leaving Me Laugh And Love

Book:All the Bright Places

Source: All the Bright Places

“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.”

Ifs World Feels Looks Persons Hard Enough Next This World Higher Standing Including Bells Towers Bumps Disappointing Right Person

Book:All the Bright Places

Source: All the Bright Places

“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.”

People Ifs Wish Hurt Easier Disease Understood Sympathetic Smallpox Measles

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“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.”

Ifs Way Want Giving Cutting Terrible What If Violet

Book:All the Bright Places

Source: All the Bright Places

“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.”

Ifs Way Self Whole Hands Running Remember Felt Laughing Mines Flower My Way Nursery Best Self Her Smile

Author:Jennifer Niven

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

People Ifs Hurt Sympathetic

Book:All the Bright Places

Source: All the Bright Places

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Born: May 14, 1968
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