All the Bright Places is a young adult fiction novel by Jennifer Niven which is based on the author’s personal story. The novel was first published on January 6, 2015, through Knopf Publishing Group and is Niven’s first young adult book. [1] A film adaptation starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith was released on February 28, 2020, on Netflix.

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70 Best All the Bright Places Quotes

1. “Even when we weren’t wandering, even from the floor of your closet, you showed the world to me.” – Jennifer Niven

2. “We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.” – Jennifer Niven

3. “Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow. Forever changed. I am forever changed.” – Jennifer Niven

4. “You deserve better. I can’t promise you I’ll stay around, not because I don’t want to. It’s hard to explain. I’m a fuckup. I’m broken, and no one can fix it. I’ve tried. I’m still trying. I can’t love anyone because it’s not fair to anyone who loves me back. I’ll never hurt you, not like I want to hurt Roamer. But I can’t promise I won’t pick you apart, piece by piece, until you’re in a thousand pieces, just like me. You should know what you’re getting into before getting involved.” ― Jennifer Niven

5. “The fact is, I was sick, but not in an easily explained flu kind of way. 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 recognizable disease just to make it simple for me and also for them.” ― Jennifer Niven

6. “I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t collect souvenirs or that we never had time to pull it all together in a way that made sense to anyone else but us. The thing I realize is that it’s not what you take, but it’s what you leave.” ― Jennifer Niven

7. “‘I’m broken, and no one can fix it. I’ve tried. I’m still trying. I can’t love anyone because it’s not fair to anyone who loves me back.’” ― Jennifer Nive

8. “The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.” ― Jennifer Niven

9. “No more winter at all, Finch. You brought me spring.” – Jennifer Niven

10. “If there’s one thing I know, it’s that no one can promise anything.” – Jennifer Niven

11. “You know what I like about you, Finch? You’re interesting. You’re different. And I can talk to you. Don’t let that go to your head.”

… “You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything.” ― Jennifer Niven

12. “I stand in front of the mirror and study my face. It is the face of a sad, lonely girl something bad has happened to. I wonder if my face will ever look the same again, or if I’ll always see it in my reflection – Finch, Eleanor, loss, heartache, guilt, death.” ― Jennifer Niven

13. “Which of my feelings are real? Which of the themes is me? There is only one me I’ve ever really liked, and he was good and awake as long as he could be.” ― Jennifer Niven

14. “I’m not a compilation of symptoms. Not a casualty of shitty parents and an even shittier chemical makeup. Not a problem. Not a diagnosis. Not an illness. Not something to be rescued. I’m a person.” – Jennifer Niven

15. “I can’t love anyone because it’s not fair to anyone who loves me back. I’ll never hurt you. But I can’t promise I won’t pick you apart piece by piece, until you’re in a thousand pieces, just like me. You should know what you’re getting into before getting involved.” – Jennifer Niven

16. “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.” – Jennifer Niven

17. “I am on the highest branch.

We are written in paint.

I believe in signs.

The glow of Ultraviolet.

A lake. A prayer. It’s so lovely to be lovely in Private.”

― Jennifer Niven

18. “We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life.” ― Jennifer Niven

19. “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.” ― Jennifer Niven

20. “I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I’m floating.” – Jennifer Niven

21. “Labels like “bipolar,” say this is why you are the way you are. This is who you are. They explain people away as illnesses.” – Jennifer Niven

22. “When we’re in the act of wandering, we need to be present, not watching it through a lens.” – Jennifer Niven

23. “Maybe, if I wear the glasses long enough, I can be like her. I can see what she saw. I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me.” ― Jennifer Niven

24. “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

25. “All I know is what I wonder: Which of my feelings are real? Which of the mess is me? There is only one me I’ve ever really liked, and he was good and awake as long as he could be.” – Jennifer Niven

26. “The thing I realize is that it’s not what you take. It’s what you leave.” – Jennifer Niven

27. “Let’s go. Let’s count for something. Let’s get off that ledge.” – Jennifer Niven

28. “I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means-the best and worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you’re mad at them, you know they’re not going to stop being your friend.” – Jennifer Niven

29. “Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It’s hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. I feel the need to say something grand and poetic, but the only thing I come up with is “It’s lovely.” – Jennifer Niven

30. “I’ve got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they’re important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something.” ― Jennifer Niven

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31. “Worthless. Stupid. These are the words I grew up hearing. They’re the words I try to outrun because if I let them in, they might stay there and grow and fill me up and in until the only thing left of me is a worthless stupid freak. And then there’s nothing to do but run harder and fill me with other words: This time will be different. This time, I will stay awake.”  ― Jennifer Niven

32. “You make me love you and that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do.” – Jennifer Niven

33. “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

34. “You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise, you’re going to stay up on the ledge you’ve made for yourself.” – Jennifer Niven

35. “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

36. “None of us knows how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifty years – I like living as if I only have that two days.” – Jennifer Niven

37. “‘You’ll be departing our…great state, and before…you do, you should…see it. You should…wander….’” ― Jennifer Niven

38. “You saved my life. Why couldn’t I save yours?” ― Jennifer Niven

39. “And at that moment there’s nothing I fear except losing hold of her hand.” – Jennifer Niven

40. “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.” – Jennifer Niven

41. “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

42. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” ― Jennifer Niven

43. “You have been in every way all that anyone could be… If anybody could have saved me, it would have been you.” – Jennifer Niven

44. “You might expect me to say “life,” having just woken up and all, but it’s only when I’m awake that I think about dying.” – Jennifer Niven

45. “She sets down the bucket and undoes the latch. For a few seconds, all she does is breathe in the scent of the flowers, and then she turns to me and, without a word, kisses me. When she pulls away, she says, ‘No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.’” ― Jennifer Niven

46. “You don’t know how it is. It’s like I’ve got this angry little person inside me, and I can feel him trying to get out. He’s running out of room because he’s growing bigger and bigger, and so he starts rising up, into my lungs, chest, throat, and I just push him right back down. I don’t want him to come out. I can’t let him out.” – Jennifer Niven

47. “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?” – Jennifer Niven

48. “The thing is, they were all perfect days.” – Jennifer Niven

49. “Because it’s not a lie if it’s how you feel.” – Jennifer Niven

50. “Listen, I’m the freak. I’m the weirdo. I’m the troublemaker. I start fights. I let people down. Don’t make Finch mad, whatever you do. Oh, there he goes again, in one of his moods. Moody Finch. Angry Finch. Unpredictable Finch. Crazy Finch. But I’m not a compilation of symptoms. Not a casualty of shitty parents and an even shittier chemical makeup. Not a problem. Not a diagnosis. Not an illness. Not something to be rescued. I’m a person.” ― Jennifer Niven

51. “You make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.” – Jennifer Niven

52. “Never bullshit a bullshitter.” – Jennifer Niven

53. “Drive anywhere and everywhere, even when there’s nowhere to go. (Note: There’s always somewhere to go.)” – Jennifer Niven

54. “The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.” ― Jennifer Niven

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

56. “People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.” ― Jennifer Niven

57. “Do whatever it takes to remind myself that I’m still here and have a say.” – Jennifer Niven

58. “Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life as you’ll never be sorry. It’s easier just to do the right things from the start so there’s nothing to apologize for.” – Jennifer Niven

59. “I think of my own epitaph, still to be written, and all the places I’ll wander. No longer rooted, but gold, flowing. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me.” ― Jennifer Niven

60. “I am broken. I am a fraud. I am impossible to love.” – Jennifer Niven

61. “The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.” – Jennifer Niven

62. “But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I’m floating.” ― Jennifer Niven

63. “We all have a shelf life.” – Jennifer Niven

64. “Sometimes, there’s beauty in the tough words – it’s all in how you read them.” – Jennifer Niven

65. “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.” – Jennifer Niven

66. “Disguise the pain. Don’t call attention. Don’t be noticed.” – Jennifer Niven

67. “Ultraviolet Remarkey-able I think I love you.” – Jennifer Niven

68. “If a song’s meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones.” – Jennifer Niven

69. “Just be careful with that heart of yours.” – Jennifer Niven

70. “You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.” – Jennifer Niven

 

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