All Jandy Nelson Quotes
- But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie,… Better
- When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky All
- The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists? Candide
- I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going… Badass
- It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was. Colossal
- He doesn’t have to say it, i feel it too; it’s not subtle - like every bell for miles and miles is ringing at once,… All
- This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve… All
- Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris. Fallen
- I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks? Always Imagined
- All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking… All
- grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us… Air
- Each time someone dies, a library burns. Burns
- Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her… All
- The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place. Inspirational
- The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air. Air
- 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