All the bright places by Jennifer Niven is a heart breaking story about mental illness and its powerful effects it has on not only the person suffering from it but as well as the people around them. Finch and Violet meet at the top of the bell tower at school. They both consider jumping off, but save one another instead. Violet is a survivor, she counts down the days where she can finally get out, and leave her past behind. while Finch is wishing he was not so lucky, counting down the days till it ends. For Finch, suicidal thoughts are a dime a dozen. He thinks about killing himself during breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He even writes fun facts about other people’s suicides in his journal. But for Violet she lives for the future, counting down the days till she graduates, waiting to escape her small town as well as the grief of her sister. The sister that should have be alive instead of her.

“we don”t remember the days we remember the moments.” ~ Theodore Finch