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Jennifer Niven

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01Undated

Never bullshit a bullshitter.

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02Undated

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

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03Undated

Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In thewater, I am safe and pulled in where Ican’t get out. Everything slows down—the noise and the racing of my thoughts.

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04Undated

There aren't many people who would say this about me, but the great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

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05Undated

I don't want to tiptoe around her or him or you anymore. The only thing that's doing us making it harder for me to remember her. Sometimes i try to concentrate on her voice just so i can hear her again-The way she always said 'Hey there' when she was in a good mood,An 'Vi-o-let' when she was annoyed.For some reason, these are the easiest ones.I concentrate on them, and when i have them. I hold on to them because i don't ever want to forget how she sounded.Like it or not,She was here and now she's gone.But she doesn't have to be completely gone.

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06Undated

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

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07Undated

I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left?

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08Undated

You know, that's what you've been doing in a way--coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell.

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09Undated

You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love...

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10Undated

Is today a good day to die?Is today the day?And if not today–when?

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11Undated

Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren't born for small! You don't know how to do small! Small is not in you!

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12Undated

May your eye go to the Sun, To the wind your soul... You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.

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13Undated

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

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14Undated

You are all the colours in one, at full brightness.

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15Undated

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.

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16Undated

A string of thoughts run through my head like a song I can't get rid of, over and over in the same order: I am broken. I am a fraud. I am impossible to love.

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17Undated

On all sides of us, spread out below, are little white lights and black pockets of trees. Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It’s hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. I hate to admit it, but it’s beautiful.

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18Undated

It's okay to laugh, you know. The earth's not going to split open. You're not going to hell. Believe me. If there's a hell, I'll be there ahead of you, and they'll be too busy with me to even check you in.

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19Undated

I like writing, but I like a lot of things. Maybe out of those things, I'm best at writing. Maybe it's what I like best of all. Maybe it's where I've always felt most at home. Or maybe the writing part of me is over. Maybe there's something else I'm supposed to do instead. I don't know.

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20Undated

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

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21Undated

I'm not a vain person, but I am human...

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22Undated

I don't know what brings you up here, but to me the town looks prettier and the people look nicer and even the worst of them look almost kind.

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23Undated

Besides, I kind of like my face intact like this, two eyes, one nose, one mouth, a full set of teeth, which, if I'm being honest, is one of my better features.

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24Undated

When he smiles like that, there's a single dimple. It was the thing that got me the very first time I saw him.

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