Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing. — 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
All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't.… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists? — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks. — Jandy Nelson 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 them in… — 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 nothing between… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I want my sister. I want to hurl a building at God. I take a breath and exhale with enough force to blow the… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Una y otra vez, día tras día, me esforcé por ser vista. Solo quería que me prestara atención, no que me dejara tirada en… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive anything more." I laugh. Then he… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Listen to me. It takes a lot of courage to be true to yourself, true to your heart. You always have been very brave… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
