Jennifer Niven

feel a thousand capacities spring up in me

You should be on top of the f—ing world right now.

s today a good day to die?

Awake, yeah, but completely empty, like someone had been feasting on my blood.

Too tenderhearted for his own good. It’s meant as a criticism and I take it as one.

ecause the thing about being Awake is that everything in you is alive and aching and making up for lost time.

o tenderhearted for his own good. It’s meant as a criticism and I take it as one.

sometimes I say and do things without thinking.

I wonder if I could pick out a few flowers for my girlfriend. It’s kind of an emergency.

Maybe that’s a strong word, and I’m sorry to alarm you. But winter is here, and I don’t know where I’ll be by spring. And she’s named for a flower, and her father hates me, and I want her to know that I’m thinking of her and that this isn’t a season of death but one for living.