Jandy Nelson

And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.

— Jandy Nelson

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

“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

I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.

— Jandy Nelson

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best…

— Jandy Nelson

“I want my sister. I want to hurl a building at God. I take a breath and exhale with enough force to…

— Jandy Nelson

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

— Jandy Nelson

“Una y otra vez, día tras día, me esforcé por ser vista. Solo quería que me prestara atención, no que me dejara…

— Jandy Nelson

grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how…

— Jandy Nelson

“I think if we don't stop kissing, the world is going to explode.”

— Jandy Nelson

He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive anything more." I laugh.…

— Jandy Nelson

“Listen to me. It takes a lot of courage to be true to yourself, true to your heart. You always have been…

— Jandy Nelson

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

— Jandy Nelson

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of…

— Jandy Nelson

“I'd been making desicions for days. I picked out the dress Bailey would wear forever- a black slinky one- innapropriate- that she…

— Jandy Nelson

This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she…

— Jandy Nelson

“Everyone has always said I look like Bailey, but I don't. I have grey eyes to her green, an oval face to…

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I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in…

— Jandy Nelson

All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or…

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“Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.”

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“There were once two sisters who shared the same room, the same clothes, the same thoughts at the same moment. These two…

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Each time someone dies, a library burns.

— Jandy Nelson

“What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?”

— Jandy Nelson

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a…

— Jandy Nelson

“She's a people-mechanic and always knows when I'm malfunctioning.”

— Jandy Nelson