“You can tell your story any way you damn well please. It's your solo.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“She's a people-mechanic and always knows when I'm malfunctioning.” — Jandy Nelson Daughter Copy Share Image
“I do not want to eat or drink, or I will lose the taste of you in my mouth.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“He’s the kind of man who walks into a room and all the walls fall down.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“by Picasso: ‘Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up.” — Jandy Nelson Art Copy Share Image
“Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“As I walk through the redwood trees, my sneakers sopping up days of rain, I wonder why bereaved people even bother with… — Jandy Nelson Death Copy Share Image
“There should be a horn or gong or something to wake God. Because I’d like to have a word with him. Three… — Jandy Nelson God Copy Share Image
I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Oh, God,’ he whispers, reaching his hand behind my neck and bringing my lips to his. ‘Let’s let the whole fucking world… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“And then yesterday…” He tosses the clarinet onto the bed. “Found out you belong to me.” He points at me. “I own… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in… — Jandy Nelson Badass Copy Share Image
“They’re in love. Like black vultures. And termites. Yes, turtle doves and swans aren’t the only animals that mate for life. Ugly,… — Jandy Nelson Life Copy Share Image
Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling… — Jandy Nelson Accumulating Copy Share Image
I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do,… — Jandy Nelson Architecture Copy Share Image
“Telepathically, I tell her I'm sorry. I tell her I just can't confide in her right now, tell her the three feet… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
This is it--what all the hoopla is about, what Wuthering Heights is about--it all boils down to this feeling rushing through me… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it? — Jandy Nelson Crush Copy Share Image
“That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I think if we don't stop kissing, the world is going to explode.” — Jandy Nelson Kissing Copy Share Image
“It’s okay to be addicted to beauty,” Mom says, all dreamy. “Emerson said ‘Beauty is God’s handwriting.” — Jandy Nelson Beauty Copy Share Image
“He's the one. And some thoughts once thought are very hard to unthink.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“We are, each one of us for the other, a key to a door that otherwise would've remained locked forever” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Me sorprendió ver que el tiempo no se detenía al detenerse su corazón.” — Jandy Nelson Amor Copy Share Image
At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us. — Jandy Nelson Decency Copy Share Image
“I feel giddy with the intimacy of being where he thinks and dreams, where he changes his clothes and flings them absolutely… — Jandy Nelson Intimacy Copy Share Image
“I want to thank him for not making me say a word, and getting it all the same, but I just remain… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“How can people die when you’re in a fight with them? When you’re smack in the middle of hating them? When absolutely… — Jandy Nelson Fight Copy Share Image
“Bailey loved both Toby and me so much - he and I almost make up her whole heart, and maybe that's it,… — Jandy Nelson Bailey Copy Share Image
I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of… — Jandy Nelson Alphabet Copy Share Image
“We hold on to each other so tightly under the sad, starless sky that for a moment I feel as if our… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown.… — Jandy Nelson Art Copy Share Image
This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling… — Jandy Nelson Brother Copy Share Image
