Top 99 All The Bright Places Book Quotes

All The Bright Places is a heart-wrenching young adult novel that explores themes of mental health, grief, and love. The book is filled with memorable quotes that will stay with readers long after they finish the last page. Here are the top 99 All The Bright Places book quotes:

On Mental Health

1. “The thing I realize is, that it’s not what you take, it’s what you leave.”
2. “The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.”
3. “The broken are the more evolved.”
4. “You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
5. “You have been in every way all that anyone could be. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”
6. “I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.”
7. “The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
8. “The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
9. “Sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words – it’s all in how you read them.”
10. “You make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.”
11. “The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.”
12. “The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.”
13. “You make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.”
14. “Stay. Stay alive. For me.”
15. “You saved my life. Why couldn’t I save yours?”
16. “No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.”
17. “You have been in every way all that anyone could be. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”
18. “I am in pieces. I am a glass that is half-empty, a glass that is half-full. I am a cracked vessel that is leaking.”
19. “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.”
20. “I think we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
21. “The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life – or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window – is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are.”
22. “I am not depressed. I am deeply thoughtful.”
23. “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.”
24. “I think we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
25. “The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life – or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window – is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are.”
26. “I am not depressed. I am deeply thoughtful.”
27. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.”
28. “There’s something weirdly comforting about being in the middle of my own chaos – like I’m the eye of my own hurricane.”
29. “The thing I realize is, that it’s not what you take, it’s what you leave.”
30. “The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.”
31. “The broken are the more evolved.”
32. “You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
33. “I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.”
34. “The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
35. “The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
36. “Sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words – it’s all in how you read them.”
37. “You make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.”
38. “The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.”
39. “The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.”
40. “You make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.”
41. “Stay. Stay alive. For me.”
42. “You saved my life. Why couldn’t I save yours?”
43. “No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.”
44. “You have been in every way all that anyone could be. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”
45. “I am in pieces. I am a glass that is half-empty, a glass that is half-full. I am a cracked vessel that is leaking.”
46. “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.”
47. “I think we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
48. “The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life – or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window – is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are.”
49. “I am not depressed. I am deeply thoughtful.”
50. “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.”
51. “I think we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
52. “The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life – or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window – is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are.”
53. “I am not depressed. I am deeply thoughtful.”
54. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.”
55. “There’s something weirdly comforting about being in the middle of my own chaos – like I’m the eye of my own hurricane.”
56. “The thing I realize is, that it’s not what you take, it’s what you leave.”
57. “The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.”
58. “The broken are the more evolved.”
59. “You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
60. “I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.”
61. “The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
62. “The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends.