All Jandy Nelson Quotes
- This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she could be anybody,… Alone
- I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen. Even Going
- I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress. Dress
- Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever Forever
- He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm… Alive
- Dreams change, yes, that makes sense, but I didn't know dreams could hide inside a person. Change
- This is it--what all the hoopla is about, what Wuthering Heights is about--it all boils down to this feeling rushing through me in this moment… All
- ... every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on a gust of wind from… Another World
- He smiles and takes his index finger and presses it to my lips, leaves it there until my heart lands on Jupiter: three seconds, then… Account
- ... 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 happen… Any
- Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath. Becomes
- Music: what life, what living itself sounds like. Funny
- How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth? Even Fit
- That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly. All
- When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk… Architecture
- According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made… According
- I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe. Bereaved
- I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off… All
- Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good. Good
- How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind? Behind